Temple Made by Ronnyjane Goldsmith

Author:Ronnyjane Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Ronnyjane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General
ISBN: 9781467142908
Google: sOREEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-10-18T02:45:09+00:00

Derrick Hodge. Courtesy of Aaron Paschal.

From elementary school through high school, Hodge played in his school’s concert band and orchestra. In junior high, with no formal training Hodge taught himself how to play the contrabass upright by using techniques he learned by watching other string players in the school orchestra.

After completing public school, Hodge studied jazz composition and performance at Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he was a member of the Temple University Jazz Band and Small Ensemble. Hodge was the first jazz major to participate in the Temple University Symphony Orchestra.

While a student at Temple, Hodge recorded his first jazz album with local saxophonist Bootsie Barnes. Subsequently, Barnes arranged for Hodge to play at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia, where Hodge met jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller. Hodge said of his first meeting with Miller, “I’ll never forget, it was a Friday night at Chris’, and I met him and we exchanged numbers and I said, ‘I would love to play with you at some point, even just pick your brain,’ and he said, ‘Okay. Yeah, just give me a call. I’m right up in Easton.’ And that was everything for me.” Hodge took Miller up on his offer and drove to Easton. After Hodge picked Miller’s brain, Miller offered Hodge his first professional jazz engagement.

By 2005, Hodge was reaching a large mainstream audience as a featured bassist on rap artist Common’s recording Be. In that year, Hodge also appeared with Terence Blanchard on Blanchard’s album Flow, which was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Jazz Instrumental Album.

In 2007, Hodge worked with Blanchard on the score to Spike Lee’s four-hour HBO documentary about Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Hodge contributed the song “Over There” to the score, A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), which earned a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2008.

From 2009 to 2013, Hodge served as musical director for R&B singer Maxwell. In 2009, Hodge was featured as bassist on Maxwell’s BLACKsummers’night, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and in 2010 won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. In 2011, Hodge signed to the Blue Note label and in 2013 he released his first solo project with Blue Note, Live Today.That same year, Hodge and Robert Glasper Experiment, a group that Hodge had joined in 2008, won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album for Black Radio.In 2014, they won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album for Black Radio 2.

In 2016, Hodge became a true renaissance man when he released his second solo project with Blue Note, The Second, acting as composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, playing almost all instruments and providing his own vocals. In 2020, Hodge released his third solo project with Blue Note, Color of Noize.

In addition to his solo projects, Hodge has written for, performed and recorded with a long list of artists, including

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