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 ...

A phone interview is scheduled with Rodney Whitaker, the native Detroiter hailed as one of the greatest jazz double bass artists on the planet, for a Saturday morning. Don’t want to call too early.

There he was in September, standing in front of the sign-in book at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge Massachusetts. Born on the east side of Detroit and now living in Lansing ...

Today's Music—Right Now! Fantastic music by Rachel Therrien, Dr. Purgatory, Rodney Jordan, Diane Marino, Ross Valory, Rodney Whitaker, Max Leake, The Reddish Fetish, Tomas Martin Lopez, Willie Morris, ...