title: Howard Drossin
text: # Howard Drossin
  
  Howard Drossin is an American composer for film and video games. 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 award-winning video game titles including Afro Samurai, Splatterhouse, 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 Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Rod Stewart, The Black Keys, Beyoncé Knowles, Wiz Khalifa, and Paul Oakenfold.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Film and television
  
  | Year | Title | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1993 | Menace II Society | additional music |
  | 1994 | Monkey Trouble | additional music |
  | 1994 | Jimmy Hollywood | with Robbie Robertson |
  | 1997 | Backstreet Boys: Everybody (Backstreet's Back) | additional music |
  | 1999 | The Item | |
  | 2001 | The Theory of the Leisure Class | |
  | 2001 | Jane Bond | |
  | 2002 | Barbershop | orchestrations |
  | 2002 | 25th Hour | orchestrations |
  | 2003 | What Boys Like | |
  | 2004 | She Hate Me | orchestrations |
  | 2005 | Unleashed | additional music |
  | 2005 | Blade: Trinity | additional music |
  | 2005 | Tom-Yum-Goong | |
  | 2005 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | orchestrations |
  | 2005 | The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants | assistant |
  | 2005 | All the Invisible Children | orchestrations |
  | 2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | orchestrations |
  | 2006 | Inside Man | orchestrations |
  | 2006 | Waist Deep | additional music and orchestrations |
  | 2007 | Talk To Me | orchestrations |
  | 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | orchestrations |
  | 2008 | Cadillac Records | orchestrations |
  | 2010 | Sidewalk | |
  | 2010 | Bunraku | orchestrations |
  | 2011 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer | Marvel One-Shot |
  | 2011 | The Consultant | Marvel One-Shot |
  | 2012 | Red Tails | orchestrations |
  | 2012 | The Man with the Iron Fists | with RZA |
  | 2014 | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus | orchestrations |
  | 2014 | Black or White | orchestrations |
  | 2015 | The Man with the Iron Fists 2 | |
  | 2015 | Chi-Raq | orchestrations |
  | 2017 | Feud | orchestrations |
  | 2017 | She's Gotta Have It | orchestrations |
  | 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | orchestrations |
  | 2018 | American Crime Story | orchestrations |
  | 2019 | Harriet | orchestrations |
  
  ### Video games
  
  | Year | Title | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1992 | Wolf: True Life Adventure | |
  | 1993 | Sonic Spinball | Sega Genesis version; with Barry Blum and Brian Coburn |
  | 1993 | Unnatural Selection | testing |
  | 1994 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Special thanks |
  | 1994 | Sonic & Knuckles | with several others |
  | 1995 | Comix Zone | |
  | 1995 | The Ooze | |
  | 1996 | Die Hard Arcade | |
  | 1997 | Manx TT SuperBike | |
  | 1998 | Dynamite Cop | |
  | 1998 | Vigilante 8 | with Jeehun Hwang |
  | 1999 | Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style | cutscene music |
  | 2000 | Vigilante 8: Second Offense | with Christian A. Salyer and Eric Klein |
  | 2000 | Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn | with Michael Hoenig |
  | 2000 | Giants: Citizen Kabuto | music editing |
  | 2000 | Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War | music editing |
  | 2001 | Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates | expansion pack |
  | 2001 | Alien Front Online | with Makito Nomiya |
  | 2001 | Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal | expansion pack; with Inon Zur |
  | 2009 | Sonic and the Black Knight | with Jun Senoue, Tommy Tallarico, Richard Jacques and others |
  | 2009 | Afro Samurai | |
  | 2010 | Splatterhouse | |
  | 2013 | Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition | music editing |
  | Unreleased | Sonic X-treme | |
  