2012 · Black Radio
Black Radio
Library — Double Bass
Derrick Hodge
2 albums as leader and 7 as sideman (2005–2020), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 2
Live Today
2013 · Blue Note
As LeaderDouble Bass / Producer / Electric Bass / Keyboards / Percussion / Synthesizer / Electric Piano / Vocals / Arranger✎ Note
Color of Noize
2020 · Blue Note
As LeaderDouble Bass / Producer / Recording Engineer / Electric Bass / Keyboards / Piano / Percussion / Vocals / Synthesizer / Guitar✎ Note
As Sideman · 7
Notes on these albums · 5
2013 · Live Today and 1 more
Chris Dave, the drummer who colors Robert Glasper Experiment's genre-blurring Black Radio (2012) alongside bassist Derrick Hodge, also played on 21, the 2011 album that became the era's best-selling pop blockbuster. One drummer links a jazz-soul experiment to mainstream pop's biggest record.
2005 · Flow
Terence Blanchard has picked up multiple Oscar nominations for film scoring, but his career started as a 20-year-old trumpeter. He was tapped to replace Wynton Marsalis in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, appearing on the band's 1983 record New York Second Line.
Terence Blanchard2013 · Black Radio 2
Chris Dave, the drummer on Robert Glasper's genre-bending Black Radio (2012), also plays on 21 (2011), one of the best-selling pop albums of the 2010s — the same hands linking a neo-soul jazz session to a stadium-scale pop blockbuster.
2015 · Gaïa
Lionel Loueke, a guitarist from Benin who was still relatively unknown, played on Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters (2007). The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2008, a rare triumph for a jazz record over mainstream pop and rock competition.
Lionel Loueke