Todd Phillips (born December 20, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated writer and a director.
Bassist Todd Phillips has worked with a wide variety of acoustic musicians, including David Grisman, Stephane Grappelli, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Tim O’Brien and Paul McCandless. He has played in numerous bands, and together with Tony Rice, Bobby Hicks, Doyle Lawson and J.D. Crowe launched the popular Bluegrass Album Band.
Phillips is a five-time winner of the Frets Magazine readers' poll award for Best Jazz and Bluegrass Bassist and a two-time Grammy winner. Todd’s solo albums have blended influences ranging from Bill Monroe to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In 1995 Phillips recorded In the Pines (Gourd Music). In 1999, he teamed with guitarist David Grier and mandolinist Matt Flinner to record Phillips, Grier & Flinner for Compass Records.
