A saxophone. A drum set. A double bass. These are three instruments that can be played traditionally, but on Mar. 6, the jazz ...

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 ...

The upright bass stands over 6 feet tall and commands a place of honor in the center of the living room at Tarik Shah’s modest Delmar apartment. The instrument is at once his obsession and his ...