Left of Black S2:E27 | ‘Black Radio,’ Philly Soul & Hip-Hop with Robert Glasper Experiment Bassist Derrick Hodge

Left of Black S2:E27 | April 9, 2012

‘Black Radio,’ Philly Soul & Hip-Hop with Robert Glasper Experiment Bassist Derrick Hodge

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in person by Philadelphia’s own Derrick Hodge, bassist for the Robert Glasper Experiment and longtime musical director for R&B artist Maxwell at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies.  Hodge discusses working as a musician in high school with few resources, and recounts his experiences working with various artists’ including Lupe Fiasco, Bilal, J-Dilla, Common, and Kanye West.  Hodge’s talks about his biggest influences as a musician, including that of the Philadelphia sound, and the significance of the Experiment’s new recording Black Radio.  Hodge may be most well known, among Hip-hop fans, for the bass solo that open Common’s “Be.”

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‘Black Radio’ and the State of Contemporary Black Music on the April 9th Left of Black

Bassist Derrick Hodge on the far left

‘Black Radio’ and the State of Contemporary Black Music on the April 9^th Left of Black

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in person by Philadelphia’s own Derrick Hodge, bassist for the Robert Glasper Experiment and longtime musical director for R&B artist Maxwell at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies. Hodge discusses working as a musician in high school with few resources, and recounts his experiences working with various artists’ including Lupe Fiasco, Bilal, Common, Kanye West, and J-Dilla.  Hodge’s talks about his biggest influences as a musician, including that of the Philadelphia sound, and the significance of the Experiment’s new recording Black Radio.  Hodge may be most well known, among Hip-hop fans, for the bass solo that open Common’s “Be.”

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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive. 

Left of Blackis recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

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