Devin Hoff is a musician

Musician

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 and songwriter

Songwriter

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 born in Colorado

Colorado

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 whose main instruments are double bass

Double bass

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 and bass guitar

Bass guitar

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. He has worked in many musical contexts and with a wide array of jazz

Jazz

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, free jazz

Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

, avant-garde rock, and folk music

Folk music

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ians, including Nels Cline

Nels Cline

Nels Cline is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr of the New York Times describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."-Career:...

, Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician, and writer based in New York City.-Biography:Born in 1971 and raised in Rochester, New York, Vijay Iyer is the son of Indian Tamil immigrants to the US. He received 15 years of Western classical training on violin...

, Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu is an American avant-garde group originally from San Jose, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has been its only constant member since its inception in 2002. His current bandmate is Angela Seo...

, Carla Bozulich

Carla Bozulich

Carla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known for her work as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of both The Geraldine Fibbers and and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow. Her 2006 album, Evangelista, was released by Constellation Records, that label's first release by a...

, Ben Goldberg, Howard Wiley, and Good for Cows

Good For Cows

Good For Cows is an experimental jazz band from Oakland, USA. Their line-up consists of Xiu Xiu's current drummer Ches Smith and former Xiu Xiu bassist Devin Hoff.- Beginning :...

.

His first regular band as a composer/leader was Redressers (with Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania currently living in Oakland, California....

, Marika Hughes and Ches Smith

Ches Smith

Ches Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles....

).

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

Chicago

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, IL.

Selected discography

Devin Hoff

• Solo Bass (2009)

Lucifer the Lightbearer

Lucifer the Lightbearer

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• Lucifer the Lightbearer (2010)

Redressers

• To Each According…(2004)

Good for Cows

Good For Cows

Good For Cows is an experimental jazz band from Oakland, USA. Their line-up consists of Xiu Xiu's current drummer Ches Smith and former Xiu Xiu bassist Devin Hoff.- Beginning :...

• 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

The Nels Cline Singers

The Nels Cline Singers are a free jazz trio led by Nels Cline, following his work in the Nels Cline Trio. They have released four albums on Cryptogramophone Records. Despite the name, there are no singers in the group.-Studio albums:*Instrumentals...

• Instrumentals (2002)
• The Giant Pin (2004)
• Draw Breath (2007)
• Initiate (2010)

Nels Cline

• New Monastery (2006)
• Dirty Baby (2010)

ROVA

Rova

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 + The Nels Cline Singers

• Celestial Septet (2010)

Wholphin DVD magazine, #7

• Look at the Sun (short film soundtrack) (2008)

Steven Bernstein

Steven Bernstein

Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly and the Millennial Territory Orchestra...

• Diaspora Suite (2008)

Joshua Redman

Joshua Redman

Joshua Redman is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who records for Nonesuch Records. He won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991.-Biography:...

• Let Me Down Easy (soundtrack for Anna Deveare Smith play) (2008)

Fred Frith

Fred Frith

Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...

, Larry Ochs

Larry Ochs

Lawrence David Ochs was the last mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado to be elected to the post by the city council. Ochs served on the Colorado Springs City Council from 1967 to 1975 and was mayor from 1975 to 1979. Since then the position has been a popularly elected one.Ochs was born in Russell,...

, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff, Ches Smith

• Reasons for Moving (2007)

Mary Halvorson

Mary Halvorson

Mary Halvorson is a guitarist from Boston, Massachusetts, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a 2002 graduate of Wesleyan University. She has performed with many artists, including Anthony Braxton, Jessica Pavone, Taylor Ho Bynum and Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant. As of 2008, she leads a trio...

, Jessica Pavone, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff

• Calling All Portraits (2008)

Carla Bozulich (feat. Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

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)

• The Red Headed Stranger (2003)

Evangelista

Evangelista

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• 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)

External links

• Devin Hoff CD Reviews – East Bay Express
• http://search2.downtownmusicgallery.com/lookup.cgi?item=2008_08_07_18_08_37