Todd Coolman Quartet
About This Event
The Todd Coolman Quartet appears at Smalls Jazz Club with a program rooted in straight-ahead small-group jazz. Pianist Rick Germanson, a Milwaukee‑raised Smalls regular, brings a focus on time, touch and harmonic detail that favors craft over display and leaves space for the rhythm section and open improvisation.
About the Artists
Todd Coolman
Todd Coolman is a jazz bassist with deep ties to New York’s performance and education scenes. A longtime faculty figure in the Purchase College Conservatory’s jazz program, he later moved into leadership as Artistic Director of the Skidmore Jazz Institute.
Rick Germanson
Rick Germanson is a jazz pianist raised in Milwaukee, whose work has long circulated through the working bandstand economy. In New York City he is a familiar presence at Smalls Jazz Club, often appearing with the Rick Germanson Trio.
Rick Germanson Sextet
The Rick Germanson Sextet is led by pianist Rick Germanson, a Milwaukee-raised musician who is a regular presence at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City. Working in a straight-ahead jazz tradition, he brings a pianist’s focus on time, touch, and harmonic detail to small-group writing and frontline interplay.