{"id":4999,"date":"2013-08-18T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2013-08-18T23:21:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:21:11","slug":"other-places-stryker-on-whitaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/08\/other-places-stryker-on-whitaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Stryker On Whitaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rodney-Whitaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rodney-Whitaker.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Whitaker\" width=\"130\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5000\" \/><\/a>Detroit is gearing up (they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good at that in Detroit) for the 2013 edition of its massive free jazz festival over the Labor Day weekend. A central performer at the festival and a major figure in the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz community is the 45-year-old bassist Rodney Whitaker, internationally known as a player and as an educator of new generations of musicians. He is the <a href=\"http:\/\/music.msu.edu\/faculty\/profile\/whitaker-rodney\"target=\"_blank\">head of jazz studies<\/a> at Michigan State University. In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em>, its music editor, Mark Stryker, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whitaker has imported the Detroit model of tradition, mentorship and community into the university. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Each one, teach one,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Whitaker said, repeating a favorite saying by the late pianist Kenny Cox, one of the many Detroit veterans who guided Whitaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz education. Like another key mentor, the legendary Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, Whitaker has older MSU students coaching less experienced peers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really doing is teaching leadership through jazz,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Whitaker said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our goal is to raise 1,000 people, who are gonna raise 1,000 people, who are gonna raise 1,000 people who are all going to go out there and change the world. In order to make them better performers, we have to educate the whole person.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Stryker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s profile of Whitaker as musician, teacher and family man&#151;and to see a video of the bassist in action, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130818\/ENT04\/308180038\/Rodney-Whitaker-MSU-Jazz-Festival\"target=\"_blank\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. A sidebar linked to the column lists Whitaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appearances at the festival. For a look at the festival lineup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitjazzfest.com\/2013lineup.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Then start packing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit is gearing up (they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good at that in Detroit) for the 2013 edition of its massive free jazz festival over the Labor Day weekend. 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