Steve Rodby

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

Life and work

Rodby, whose father is a classical musician, learned the double bass on television know by Captain Kangaroo and began playing classical bass at the age of ten years. Soon he was interested in both jazz and pop music and turned even the electric bass to. He studied at Northwestern University and received a degree in classical double bass player. He also studied with Warren Benfield ( from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ) and the 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 belonged to the band of Ramsey Lewis; also he took up with Paul McCandless. In 1981, he joined the Pat Metheny Group, whose member he is still; he can be heard on all the band's albums since then. He realized with Metheny several projects, including his duo album with Jim Hall, Pat Metheny Group, the two live albums, and also Michael Brecker album Nearness Of You. In addition, he set the video and audio DVD Imaginary Day Live the Pat Metheny Group together.

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