Derrick Hodge Returns with “Color of Noize”
Two-time Grammy-winning bassist Derrick Hodge has returned with his third album as a leader, entitled Color of Noize. While it’s an expansion on Hodge’s unique blend of jazz, hip-hop, and soul, it also has several fresh aspects. He’s put together a new band for the effort, plus he brought on Blue Note president and fellow bassist Don Was as a co-producer.
“Don has this selflessness where he really wants to get to the root of what makes a musician tick and what’s pushing them in the moment,” says Hodge. “It felt invaluable to have someone like that in my corner for a project like this, to help see everything through a different lens.”
“It was powerful to see this group of young, brilliant improvisers set up in a circle at Hollywood’s historic United Studio A,” says Was. “It felt like a throwback to what it might have been like on the floor of a Blue Note session at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in the mid-sixties. These were ‘old school’ sessions yielding modern music so forward-looking and visionary that there is no existing genre within which to categorize it.”
Hear Hodge talk about the album in this trailer:
Color of Noize is available now on CD and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
Color of Noize Track List:
- The Cost
- Not Right Now
- Little Tone Poem
- You Could Have Stayed
- Color of Noize
- 19
- Fall
- Looking At You
- Heartbeats
- New Day
- You Could Have Stayed (Piano Version)
