Todd Phillips (born April 21, 1953) is an American double bassist. He has appeared on many innovative, as well as traditional, acoustic instrumental and bluegrass recordings made since the mid-1970s. A two-time Grammy Award winner and original founding member of The David Grisman Quintet, Phillips has made a career of performing and recording with acoustic music artists such as five-year stint in The Tony Rice Unit, his membership of The Bluegrass Album Band