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Rodney Whitaker
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Rodney Whitaker is associate professor of double bass and director of jazz studies at the Michigan State University College of Music.
Whitaker is one of the leading performers and teachers of jazz double bass in the United States. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and received national recognition performing with the Terence Blanchard Quintet. Whitaker has also toured internationally as a featured performer with the Roy Hargrove Quintet. In addition, he has appeared and presented master classes at the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) conferences. Featured on more than 100 recordings - from film to compact discs - Whitaker's film score, China, directed by Jeff Wray, was released on PBS in 2002.
In 2006, he was nominated for the Juno Award, Canada's equivalent to the Grammy, for his work on “Let Me Tell You About My Day,” produced by Alma Records
Tell the Truth
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tell the Truth; Tuesday Morning Feeling; Don't Bring It Up; Snowy Range Blues; Spencer's Mood; It's Spoken
Spokane; The Picture Outside My Window; Rimshot.
Waking Dream
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Super Moon; The Speckled Frog; Waking Dream; Two Thoughts; Cafe Brasilia; The Singer; 52 Pickup; Riverside
Blossoms; Jo Jo Jo; Boom Boom.
The Vibe
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Girlie's World; The Vibe; Algonquin; Toshi; Sister Rosa; Easy Money; Heartstrings; How It Goes;
Jamerson's
Lullaby; Woodpecker; Unchained Melody.
Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Mosaic; Unknown Ballad; Claxilever; Katie’s Tune; Moonscape; Ray-Dias; Still Life With Tuba; Sloe Gin Fizz;
Stargazer; Sunday Special.
The Singer
Album: Waking Dream
By Randy Napoleon
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:38
Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
by Paul Rauch
Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill is on a remarkable roll, authoring an impressive run of compositions represented on eight albums released on the Origin Records label. Each has featured a bandleader associated with the top shelf staff at Rodney Whitaker's jazz program at Michigan State University. City Life (2025) is the third under the leadership of trombone ...
Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest
by Gary Fukushima
For most of his life, Jordan VanHemert has been on a quest of growth and mastery as a saxophonist, composer and musician. But equally important have been his efforts to contextualize some of the difficulties of his life experiences within the deeper themes of his DNA, discovering in the process resilience, optimism and joy. Jordan's music ...
Here and Now
Album: Survival of the Fittest
By Jordan VanHemert
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:43
