Question: What NBA basketball player, who was also a smooth jazz bass guitarist, did Rodney Stepp perform alongside of?

Context articles: Blake Stepp
Soft Touch (album)
Last Kiss Goodbye
Jaco Pastorius
Craig Sharmat
Michael Mondesir
Rodney Stepp
Patrick Yandall
Ocacia
Wayman Tisdale

Blake Roy Stepp (born February 4, 1982) is an American retired professional basketball player.
 After a standout prep career at South Eugene High School and college career at Gonzaga University, he was drafted in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
 However, Stepp spent two seasons playing overseas, before retiring due to chronic knee injuries at the age of 24.
 After his basketball career, Stepp also played poker professionally.
Soft Touch is the third studio album by guitarist Brian Tarquin, released in May 1999 on Instinct records.
 Tarquin recorded "Soft Touch" in London once again with producer Ernie McKone, bass player from the UK acid jazz band Galliano.
 Once the tracks were all recorded, Instinct didn't want to keep the live playing on the album.
 This was due mainly because one of the A&R people attended a Radio & Records conference, and had noted that radio was playing programed grooves.
 So two other producers Tony Campbell and Chris Ingram were brought in to program the songs and re-record everything.
 Despite the setbacks, this was another commercially successful album as Smooth Jazz radio embraced the featured single, "Darlin Darlin Baby", originally recorded by The O'Jays.
 Another single from the album, "Tangled Web", was a very big radio hit as well, becoming #1 in the New York City market on CD101.9 as well as reaching # 9 nationwide on the Smooth Jazz radio charts.
 Tarquin also covered another Jeff Beck song, "You Know What I Mean".
Last Kiss Goodbye is the second studio solo album by guitarist Brian Tarquin, released in October 1997 with a new label Instinct records.
 Going in a more modern direction, Tarquin moved towards the more funky street grooves.
 Instinct sent him to London to record with Ernie McKone, bass player from the UK Acid Jazz band Galliano.
 This was the break through album for Tarquin, featuring the R&R/Gavin radio hit "One Arabian Knight" that charted #4 on the NAC/Smooth Jazz radio charts and the Jeff Beck remake Freeway Jam.
 The album has become a favorite at Smooth Jazz and still receives a generous amount of airplay today on Pandora and Sirius radio.
John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III ( , December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bass guitarist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981.
 He worked with Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, and recorded albums as a solo artist and band leader.
 His bass playing employed funk, lyrical solos, bass chords, and innovative harmonics.
 He was inducted into the "Down Beat" Jazz Hall of Fame in 1988, one of only seven bassists so honored (and the only electric bass guitarist).
Craig Sharmat (born October 8, 1957) is an American musician.
 He composes music for television and film and is an accomplished guitarist whose work has been noticed in the Smooth Jazz charts.
 He has scored a wide variety of reality TV shows, TV animation, television commercials, and documentary movies.
 He has also played guitar on thousands of cues and backed up a number of commercial artists as guitarist and or arranger.
 He released his first jazz single in 2009, "So Cal Drivin"; the album of the same name was released later that year.
 His second album, "Outside In", contains the song "Ease Up", which reached number two on the Billboard Smooth Jazz chart.
Michael Mondesir (born 6 February 1966 in London) is an English jazz bass guitarist, and composer He is one of the most in demand jazz bass players in Europe, touring regularly with Billy Cobham, Cream (band) drummer Ginger Baker and James Brown musical director Pee Wee Ellis.
 He is credited as bass player on over twenty major name jazz albums.
Rodney Stepp (born September 29, 1952) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur.
 As a jazz, R&B/soul performer, Rodney's musical career has spanned more than 50 years and 5 continents, performing alongside Michael Jackson, Babyface, The Spinners, Wayman Tisdale, Mary Wilson, and other notable artists.
 Affectionately known as “The Doctor,” Rodney's musical finesse has gained this multi-talented artist awards and accolades throughout the year.
Patrick Yandall (born Patrick Norman Yandall on September 5, 1959 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) is a smooth jazz, contemporary jazz/rock/blues guitarist with 20 album releases.
 17 jazz/ smooth jazz, 1 rock instrumental "Going for One", 2 Blues rock "New York Blues" "One Hour Blues" and a new release "Ethos" scheduled for late 2016.
 He was raised in Bay City, Michigan and is a 1977 graduate of T.L. Handy High School in Bay City.
 Attended Central Michigan University.
 Patrick's latest achievement is a track of his "Mr. Fattburger" in the hit film "FRUITVALE STATION" in 2013 (See IMDB).
 Patrick's song "Who's The Bossa Now" from the album "Samoa Soul" was used in the political satire film War, Inc. starring John Cusack and Marissa Tomei.
 Yandall's music has also been featured on television and news broadcasts.
 The single, "Tower of Soul", off that CD stayed No. 1 for 5 weeks straight on Smooth Jazz Now top 30 chart and hit No. 1 on Live 365 smooth jazz radio chart monitored by Radio Wave.
Ocacia is an international smooth jazz studio and performance group.
 Ocacia is known for their socially conscious lyrics.
 The music is characterized by some as "escapist" in the usage of space, chords and ethnic overtones.
 The chord structure has an absences of "thirds" and is similar to other African Diaspora and African classical music by its “drum and bass” dominance.
 Not all the music fits into the smooth jazz canon, as some of it is more in the film score world.
 Their first album was released in 1999.
 The original members of the group were Owen 'Alik Shahadah (Piano/keyboards), Natasha Odlum-Shahadah (voice), David Hadley (Bass), Brian McCooke (drums).
 In 2002, Natasha Odlum left the group and Nadia Kanouche became the new lead feature vocalist.
 Ocacia works as a studio group composing soundtracks and is also known to work with other artists such as Sona Jobarteh and M.K. Asante, Jr.
Wayman Lawrence Tisdale (June 9, 1964 – May 15, 2009) was an American professional basketball player in the NBA and a smooth jazz bass guitarist.
 A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.