Biography Wikipedia
Wikipedia:
Devin Hoff is a musician and songwriter born in Colorado whose main instruments are double bass and bass guitar. He has worked in many musical contexts and with a wide array of jazz, free jazz, avant-garde rock, and folk musicians, including Nels Cline, Vijay Iyer, Xiu Xiu, Carla Bozulich, Ben Goldberg, Howard Wiley, and Good for Cows.
His first regular band as a composer/leader was Redressers (with Carla Kihlstedt, Marika Hughes and Ches Smith).
He wrote and recorded an album of solo double bass music, Solo Bass (2009), and continues to perform in that medium.
He currently lives in Chicago, IL.
Selected discography
Devin Hoff
Solo Bass (2009)Lucifer the Lightbearer
Lucifer the Lightbearer (2010)Redressers
To Each According…(2004)Good for Cows
Good for Cows (2001)Less Than or Equal To (2003)Bebop Fantasy (2004)10th Anniversary Concert (2008)Audumla (2010)Xiu Xiu
La Foret (2005)Tu Mi Piaci (2006)The Air Force (2006)Women as Lovers (2008)The Nels Cline Singers
Instrumentals (2002)The Giant Pin (2004)Draw Breath (2007)Initiate (2010)Nels Cline
New Monastery (2006)Dirty Baby (2010)ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers
Celestial Septet (2010)Wholphin DVD magazine, #7
Look at the Sun (short film soundtrack) (2008)Steven Bernstein
Diaspora Suite (2008)Joshua Redman
Let Me Down Easy (soundtrack for Anna Deveare Smith play) (2008)Fred Frith, Larry Ochs, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff, Ches Smith
Reasons for Moving (2007)Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff
Calling All Portraits (2008)Carla Bozulich (feat. Willie Nelson)
The Red Headed Stranger (2003)Evangelista
The Prince of Truth (2009)Ben Goldberg
The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact (2006)Howard Wiley
Angola Project (2006)Odessa Chen
Ballad of Paper Ships (2006)The Archives (2011)Sean Hayes
Flowering Spade (2007)Run Wolves Run (2010)