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Steve Rodby is an American jazz bassist and producer known for his time with the Pat Metheny Group.

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Steve Rodby (born December 9, 1954, in Joliet, Illinois) is an American jazz bassist and producer known for his time with the Pat Metheny Group.\n

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Biography

Rodby was born in Joliet, Illinois, into a musical family. His father was a music teacher who bought him an acoustic bass, electric bass, and amp when he was 12. He heard classical music from a young age and was educated in classical until high school when he learned jazz. During high school summers, he went to jazz camps, where he met Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, and Danny Gottlieb, three of the original four members of the Pat Metheny Group.\n

Rodby played acoustic bass until he graduated from Northwestern University in 1977, when he taught himself how to play electric. He performed in the house band at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, with local and visiting musicians such as Milt Jackson, Joe Henderson, and Art Farmer. He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981, starting on electric bass before spending most of his time on acoustic. He spent the next thirty years at Metheny's side, touring, recording, and producing, in Group projects and in Metheny's other projects. With Metheny he earned multiple Grammy awards and nominations, and admiration from critics, magazines, and reader polls.\n

Rodby collaborated with Fred Simon and Paul McCandless on two albums: Since Forever and Remember the River. In 2011 he collaborated with Paul Wertico, a former drummer for the Metheny Group, and with Israeli musicians Danny Markovitch and Dani Rabin on Marbin's album Breaking the Cycle.\n

Since 2018, Rodby has held a position as artist of residence in the faculty of Jazz Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.\n

Discography

With Ross Traut\n

Great Lawn (Columbia, 1987)
The Duo Life (Columbia, 1991)

As sideman

With Pat Metheny Group\n

Offramp (ECM, 1982) – bassist
Travels (ECM, 1983) – bassist
First Circle (ECM, 1984) – bassist
The Falcon and the Snowman (EMI, 1985) – bassist, conductor
Still Life (Talking) (Geffen Records, 1987) – bassist, co-producer
Letter from Home (Geffen Records, 1989) – bassist, co-producer
The Road to You (Geffen Records, 1993) – bassist, co-producer
We Live Here (Geffen Records, 1995) – bassist, co-producer
Quartet (Geffen Records, 1996) – bassist, co-producer
Imaginary Day (Warner Bros, 1997) – bassist, co-producer
Speaking of Now (Warner Bros, 2002) – bassist, co-producer
The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2005) – bassist, co-producer

With Pat Metheny\n

Secret Story (Geffen Records, 1992) – bassist, co-producer
A Map of the World (Warner Bros, 1999) – bassist, co-producer
Trio 99 → 00 (Warner Bros, 2000) – co-producer
Trio → Live (Warner Bros, 2000) – co-producer
Day Trip (Nonesuch, 2008) – co-producer
Tokyo Day Trip (Nonesuch, 2008) – co-producer
Orchestrion (Nonesuch, 2010) – co-producer
Unity Band (Nonesuch, 2012) – co-producer
The Orchestrion Project (Nonesuch, 2013) – co-producer
KIN (←→) (Nonesuch, 2014) – co-producer
The Unity Sessions (Nonesuch, 2016) – co-producer
From This Place (Nonesuch, 2020) − co-producer

With Simon & Bard Group\n

Musaic (Flying Fish, 1980) – bassist
Tear It Up (Flying Fish, 1982) – bassist
The Enormous Radio (Flying Fish, 1984) – bassist

With Michael Brecker\n

Nearness of You: The Ballad Book (Verve Records, 2001) – co-producer
Pilgrimage (Heads Up, 2007) – co-producer

With Eliane Elias\n

Dreamer (Bluebird, 2004) – co-producer
Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans (Blue Note, 2007) – co-producer
Bossa Nova Stories (Blue Note, 2009) – co-producer
Light My Fire (Concord Picante, 2011) – co-producer
I Thought About You (Concord Jazz, 2013) – co-producer
Made In Brazil (Concord Jazz, 2015) – co-producer, recorded
Dance of Time (Concord Jazz, 2017) – co-producer
Love Stories (Concord Jazz, 2019) – co-producer
Mirror Mirror (Candid, 2021) – co-producer
Quietude (Candid, 2022) – co-producer
Time and Again (Candid, 2024) – co-producer

With Lyle Mays\n

Street Dreams (Geffen Records, 1988) – bassist, co-producer, conductor
Fictionary (Geffen Records, 1993) – co-producer
Solo (Improvisations For Expanded Piano) (Geffen Records, 2000) – co-producer
Eberhard (KMG Distribution, 2021) – bassist, co-producer

With Pat Coil\n

Schemes And Dreams (Sheffield Lab, 1994) – bassist, co-producer
Gold (Sheffield Lab, 1996) – bassist

With Fred Simon\n

Usually/Always (Windham Hill Records, 1988) – bassist, producer, editing
Open Book (Columbia, 1991) – bassist, co-producer
Remember the River by (Naim, 2004) – bassist
Since Forever (Naim, 2009) – bassist, producer, editing

With Steve Cole\n

Spin (Narada Jazz, 2005) – bassist
True (Narada Jazz, 2005) – bassist

With Paul McCandless\n

Heresay (Windham Hill Records, 1988) – bassist
Premonition (Windham Hill Records, 1992) – bassist, producer
Navigator (Landslide Records, 1994) – bassist

With others\n

Madelaine, Who Is She... (United Artists Records, 1978) – bassist
John Prine, Bruised Orange (Asylum Records, 1978) – bassist
Jimmy Raney, For You To Play . . . Ten Favorite Jazz Standards, Volume 20 (JA Records, 1979) – bassist
Jamey Aebersold, Gettin' It Together (JA Records, 1979) – bassist
Ramsey Lewis, Ramsey (Columbia, 1979) – bassist
Tyrone Davis, I Just Can't Keep On Going (Columbia, 1980) – bassist
Ross Traut, Ross Traut (Headfirst, 1981) – bassist
Chuck Mangione, Save Tonight For Me (Columbia, 1986) – bassist
Tom Paxton, And Loving You (Flying Fish, 1986) – bassist
Fareed Haque, Voices Rising (PAND, 1988) – bassist
Toninho Horta, Moonstone (Verve/Forecast, 1989) – bassist
Montreux, Let Them Say (Windham Hill Records, 1989) – mixing, producer
Michael Manring, Drastic Measures (Windham Hill Records, 1991) – bassist, producer
Noa, Noa (Geffen Records, 1994) – bassist, co-producer
Clifford Carter, Walkin' Into The Sun (Soul Coast, 1994) – bassist
Kim Pensyl, Quiet Cafe (Fahrenheit Records, 1998) – bassist
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny, (Telarc, 1999) – co-producer
Oregon, Oregon in Moscow (Intuition, 2000) – producer
Brian Culbertson, Come On Up (Warner Bros. Records, 2003) – bassist
Simon Apple, River To The Sea (Trunk Records, 2004) – bassist
Lisa Lauren, Loves The Beatles (Planet Jazz Records, 2006) – bassist
Charlie Haden, Rambling Boy (Universal, 2008) – co-producer
Esperanza Spalding, Radio Music Society (Heads Up, 2012) – mix preparation
Ryan Cohan, The River (Motéma Music, 2013) – producer
Marbin, Last Chapter Of Dreaming (Moonjune Records, 2013) – bassist
The Impossible Gentlemen, Internationally Recognized Aliens (Basho, 2013) – bassist, producer
Tyrone Davis, Love And Touch (Solid Records, 2015) – strings
John Moulder, Earthborn Tales Of Soul And Spirit (Origin Records, 2016) – bassist

Grammy Awards

With Pat Metheny Group:\n

Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental – Offramp
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental – Travels
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental – First Circle
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental – Still Life (Talking)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance – Letter From Home
Best Contemporary Jazz Performance Instrumental – The Road to You
Best Contemporary Jazz Performance Instrumental – We Live Here
Best Contemporary Jazz Performance – Imaginary Day
Best Rock Instrumental Performance – \"The Roots of Coincidence\"
Best Contemporary Jazz Album – Speaking of Now
Best Contemporary Jazz Album – The Way Up

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