Resultado de búsqueda
Whitaker is professor of jazz double bass and director of jazz studies at Michigan State University's College of Music. He has presented master classes at such institutions as Duke University , Howard University , University of Iowa , University of Michigan , the New School (NY), Lincoln Center , and the Detroit International Jazz Festival ...
- Musician, educator
- Jazz
- February 22, 1968 (age 55), Detroit, MI, United States
Double Duke – Joe Temperely /Label- Naxos The Search – Wycliffe Gordon /Label- Nagel Heyer Records A Tribute to Joe Henderson – Jazz All Stars /Label- Arcadia
Rodney T. Whitaker, internationally renowned Mack Avenue recording artist, jazz bassist, professor of jazz double bass, director of Jazz Studies and artistic director for the Professors of Jazz at Michigan State University where he has built one of the most distinguished jazz degree programs and performing faculty in the United States.
He is considered one of the leading performers and teachers of the jazz double bass in the United States. He is also the Artistic Director of the Michigan State University Professors of Jazz, former Artistic Advisor of Jazz @ Wharton Center, Director of Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Jazz Orchestra and a former member of the Jazz at ...
8 de oct. de 2019 · For emminent bassist, Distinguished Professor of Jazz Bass and Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State Rodney Whitaker, the release of his latest record All Too Soon is both an essential artistic undertaking and a lavish fiftieth birthday gift to himself.
- Jazz Chill
4 de abr. de 2023 · Detroit Jazz Hero. A resounding “yes!” arose from members of the jazz community when bassist and educator Rodney Whitaker was nominated as the 2023 Detroit Jazz Hero. Though he studied at Wayne State University, Rodney says his deepest lessons came on the bandstand from mentors Donald Walden, Marcus Belgrave, Roy Brooks, Robert ...
6 de mar. de 2020 · For the second installment of an ambitious five-CD project, undertaken to observe his fiftieth birthday, master bassist Rodney Whitaker convenes a world-class sextet to pay homage to the oeuvre of Duke Ellington.
