Rodney Whitaker
About the artist
Rodney Whitaker is a 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. 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.
Top songs
- When You Played With Roy
- Ease It
- Technocats
- The World Falls Away
- Just Squeeze Me
- Mr. Magic
- Invitation
- Caravan
- Autumn Leaves
- Jamerson's Lullaby
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- You Go To My Head
- Freedom Day
- A Mother's Cry
- Claxilever
- When We Find Ourselves Alone
- Harlem Air Shaft
- Wise Young Man
- Lost Alone in You Again
- Whims Of Chambers
- Cotton Tail
- Dollah Hollah
- The Hand Of Love
- Common Ground
- Mood Indigo
- The Way They Always Said It Should Be
- Alone With Just My Dreams
- Mandela's Muse
- Stargazer
- Broadway
- Centerpiece
- All Too Soon
- Big Foot
- For Rockelle
- Take the a Train
- Woman Child
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Mosaic
- Blues in the Closet
- Unknown Ballad
- It Don't Mean a Thing
- One Silent Moment
- Childhood
- Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
- Mood Swings
- Sunday Special
- The Ringer
- Perdido
- Tribute
- Betty's Tune
- Mastery Through Love
- Katie's Tune
- Outrospection
- Langman
- Phoenix
- New Sunday
- Sloe Gin Fizz
- Come Sunday
- Repentance
- Moonscape
- Cultural Warrior
- Azure
- Aftershock
- Bridge to Nashua
- (Queen) Roz
- Pilgrim Progress
- The Child in the Womb
- El Morro
- Ray-Dias
- Beets' Beat
- Hidden Kingdom
- Aloogabooga
- Ballade
- First Impressions
- A Cool Breeze Runs Through E. Lansing
- J-Quest
- Remembrance
- The Promise of You
- Still Life With Tuba
- Happier Times
- All to Soon
- Pointe Being
- Children of the Light
- Cadillac Club
- Visions of the Past
- The Game
- Winter Wonderland
- First Song
- You And Me
- It's Happening
- Minorabilia
- Fan-O-Gram
- Darrianne Niles
- The Way You Look Tonight
- To the Well
- Taylor Made
- Sunday Afternoon
- Blues For The Apple
- The Nearness Of You
- Do Nothing Tilt You Hear From Me
- Peace Song
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