Devin Hoff


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.
He wrote and recorded an album of solo double bass music, Solo Bass, and continues to perform in that medium. His follow up release is called Sigils and was released digitally and also on audio tape.
In December 2018, Hoff joined with Kira Roessler to form the two bass band AwkWard and released their first album In Progress.

Selected discography

Devin Hoff
Lucifer the Lightbearer
Redressers
Good for Cows
Xiu Xiu
The Nels Cline Singers
Nels Cline
ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers
Wholphin DVD magazine, No. 7
Steven Bernstein
Joshua Redman
Fred Frith, Larry Ochs, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff, Ches Smith
Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff
Carla Bozulich '
Evangelista
Ben Goldberg
Howard Wiley
  • Angola Project
Odessa Chen
  • Ballad of Paper Ships
  • The Archives
Sean Hayes
  • Flowering Spade
  • Run Wolves Run
AwkWard' with Kira Roessler