And even while it was still being sold in the campus bookstore for $6.50, “GSU Jazz Live!” was making waves. In 1976, Joliet native Steve Rodby, a graduate student at Northwestern University in Chicago, made the album a centerpiece of music camps he gave at University of Portland in Washington and University of Saskatchewan in Canada, according to a contemporary edition of GSU’s Faze 1 newsletter. A few years after that, Rodby started a three decade stint as bass player for the Pat Metheny Group.
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