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Derrick Hodge

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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 Gods 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, BLACK summers'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.

Derrick was a contributing composer for the original musical score of When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, an HBO documentary produced by Spike Lee, aired in August 2006, as well as choral arranger for the ending credits of Miracle at St. Anna also directed by Lee. He was sole composer of the score for the documentary film Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans directed by Dawn Logsdon, written by Lolis Eric Elie and released in 2008. Other film credits include music composer for The Recruiter directed by Edet Belzberg, The Black Candle directed by M. K. Asante, Jr., as well as various scores for director and playwright David E. Talbert. Hodge has also written various other compositions including "Infinite Reflections", which was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and arranged for small brass ensemble, among other commissioned works, string arrangements, and theatrical music scores.

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