Rodney Whitaker
Instrument: Bass
Rodney Whitaker is a professor of double bass and director of jazz studies at Michigan State University's College of Music. He was a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and received national recognition performing with the Terence Blanchard Quintet. He is also the conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Civic Jazz Orchestra. Whitaker has also toured internationally as a featured performer with the Roy Hargrove Quintet. 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.
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