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