Steve Rodby

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Steve Rodby (with Pat Metheny, right)

Steve Rodby (born December 9, 1954 in Joliet , Illinois ) is an American bass player and music producer .

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Rodby, whose father is a classical musician, met the double bass on television through Captain Kangaroo and started playing classical bass at the age of ten . Soon he became interested in both jazz and pop music and also turned to the electric bass . He graduated from Northwestern University and graduated as a classical double bass player. He also studied with Warren Benfield (of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ) and jazz bassist Rufus Reid . Steve Rodby has worked as a sideman with a large number of jazz musicians including Joe Henderson , Roy Haynes , Tony Bennett , Teddy Wilson , Milt Jackson , Art Farmer , Sonny Stitt , George Coleman , Ira Sullivan , Zoot Sims , Lee Konitz , Jackie McLean , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Kenny Burrell , James Moody , Johnny Griffin and Monty Alexander . Since 1981 he was part of the band of Ramsey Lewis ; he also recorded with Paul McCandless .

In 1981 he joined the Pat Metheny Group, of which he is still a member; he can be heard on all of the band's albums since then. He has realized several projects with Metheny, including his duo album with Jim Hall , the two Pat Metheny Group live albums and Michael Brecker's album Nearness Of You . He also compiled the video and audio DVD Imaginary Day Live for the Pat Metheny Group.

Rodby has been working increasingly as a producer since 1995. For example, he produced Oregon In Moscow (a recording by the band Oregon with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra ), which was proposed for four Grammys , but also the album Light My Fire by Eliane Elias . As a sound engineer he was involved in Cassandra Wilson's album Thunderbird .

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SURNAME Rodby, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bass player and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Joliet