Howard Drossin

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Howard Drossin
Genres Film music, video game music, electronic, rock, jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, arranger
Instrument(s) Guitar, piano
Years active1992–present
Website howarddrossin.com

Howard Drossin is an American composer for film and video games. Most recently, he has worked with Spike Lee on documentaries and short films. His work includes co-scoring with longtime collaborator RZA, The Man with the Iron Fists for Universal Pictures, starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu; several video games including Afro Samurai , Sonic & Knuckles , and Baldur's Gate ; a Super Bowl commercial; and orchestration on the Grammy-winning jazz record A Tale of God's Will. He has also worked on albums and musical projects with a wide variety of artists including Terence Blanchard, Rod Stewart, The Black Keys, Beyoncé Knowles, Wiz Khalifa, and Paul Oakenfold.

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Works

Film and television

YearTitleNotes
1997Backstreet Boys: Everybody (Backstreet's Back)Music
1999The ItemMusic
2001The Theory of the Leisure ClassMusic
Jane BondMusic
2002 Barbershop Orchestrations
25th Hour Orchestrations
2003What Boys LikeMusic
2004 She Hate Me Orchestrations
2005 Unleashed Music
Blade: Trinity Music
Tom-Yum-Goong Music
Their Eyes Were Watching God Orchestrations
All the Invisible Children Orchestrations
2006 Akeelah and the Bee Orchestrations
Inside Man Orchestrations
Waist Deep Additional music
2007 Talk To Me Orchestrations
2008Miracle at St. AnnaOrchestrations
Cadillac Records Orchestrations
2010SidewalkMusic
Bunraku Orchestrations
2011A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's HammerMusic
The ConsultantMusic
2012 Red Tails Orchestrations
The Man with the Iron Fists Music with RZA
2014 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Orchestrations
Black or White Orchestrations
2015 The Man with the Iron Fists 2 Music
Chi-Raq Orchestrations
2017 Feud Orchestrations
She's Gotta Have It Orchestrations
2018 BlacKkKlansman Orchestrations
American Crime Story Orchestrations
2018 Pass Over Music
2019 Harriet Orchestrations
2020Coach: Words MatterMusic
Welcome to Sudden DeathMusic
2022Nike: Seen It AllMusic
2024Italy in AmericaMusic

Video games

YearTitleNotes
1992Wolf: True Life AdventureMusic (uncredited) [1]
1993 Sonic Spinball Music with Barry Blum and Brian Coburn
1994 Sonic & Knuckles Music with several others
1995 Comix Zone Music
The Ooze Music
1996 Die Hard Arcade Music
1997 Manx TT SuperBike Music
1998 Dynamite Cop Music
Vigilante 8 Music with Jeehun Hwang
1999 Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style Cutscene music
2000 Vigilante 8: Second Offense Music with Christian Salyer and Eric Klein
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Music with Michael Hoenig
Giants: Citizen Kabuto Music editing
Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War Music editing
2001 Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates Music
Alien Front Online Music with Makito Nomiya
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal Music with Inon Zur
2009 Sonic and the Black Knight Music with Jun Senoue, Tommy Tallarico, Richard Jacques and others
Afro Samurai Music
2010 Splatterhouse Music
2013 Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition Music editing
Sonic X-treme Music (unreleased)

References

  1. Drossin, Howard (September 22, 2009). "Interview: Game Musician Drossin, From Sonic To Afro Samurai". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2025.