Derrick Hodge
| Derrick Hodge | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 5, 1979 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, hip hop, urban contemporary |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, record producer |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, double bass |
| Labels | Blue Note |
| Website | www |
Derrick Hodge (born July 5, 1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Grammy Award-winning American bassist, composer, record producer, and musical director.
Known as a hybrid bassist as well as a solo artist, Derrick has performed and recorded with various artists including Common, Q-Tip, Kanye West, Timbaland, Jill Scott, Mos Def, Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, Gerald Levert, The Robert Glasper Experiment (Robert Glasper, Mark Colenburg, and Casey Benjamin), Anthony Hamilton, James Moore, Donnie McClurkin, Grammy award winning classical composer Osvaldo Golijov, and others. He has also toured and recorded with jazz artists including Clark Terry, Mulgrew Miller, Terell Stafford, and Terence Blanchard. He appeared on and composed for the extremely successful albums of the latter, Flow, and A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) (2007), which were nominated for a total of 4 Grammy Awards, winning one for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. He also appeared on rapper Common's albums Be and Finding Forever, which also won a Grammy Award, playing bass and producing two tracks. Hodge has also served as musical director for R&B singer Maxwell from 2009 until present (2013), and was featured as bassist on Maxwell's Columbia Records release in 2009, BLACKsummers'night, which peaked at #1 on US Billboard 200 and US Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums as well as winning a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album in 2010. Hodge also won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album in 2013 with the highly acclaimed Robert Glasper Experiment for the 2012 Blue Note Records release, Black Radio and won again in 2014 with the follow up release in 2013 of Black Radio 2.
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