Derrick Hodge

Derrick Hodge ( born July 5, 1979 in Philadelphia ) is an American jazz bassist and composer.

Life and work

Derrick Hodge began seven years electric guitar to play, before switching to electric bass. In junior high school, he played a self-taught bass. The bachelor's degree in music, he acquired the ester Boyer College of Music at Temple University; next he had private lessons with Vince Fay. He was the led by Terell Stafford Temple University Jazz Band and Small Ensemble on, played in the Temple University Symphony Orchestra and New Music Chamber Orchestra. Since the early 2000s, he worked among others with Mulgrew Miller, Terence Blanchard, Stefon Harris (African Tarantella: Dances With Duke, 2006) and Gretchen Parlato ( The Lost and Found, 2011), also with the soul and hip hop musicians Bilal ( Airtight 's Revenge, 2010), Anthony Hamilton, Graveyard Soldjas and Common ( Finding Forever ). He also wrote several compositions, which, inter alia, by Jeff Bradshaw ( "Lookin ' " ) and Robert Glasper ( " Ah Yeah" ) were recorded, and film scores. In the field of jazz, he was involved 2002-2012 to 28 recording sessions. Under his own name, he presented the album Live Today at Blue Note Records. In 2012, he was elected in critics poll of Down Beat electric bassists of the year ( Rising Stars ).