Fred Hopkins (October 10, 1947 – January 7, 1999) was a Chicago double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement. He was a member of the avant garde jazz trio Air (with Henry Threadgill and Steve McCall) and David Murray's Low Class Conspiracy; he frequently worked with the cellist Diedre Murray. Hopkins played with a wide variety of musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Don Pullen, Hamiet Bluiett, Andrew Cyrille, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Sunny Murray, Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Thompson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, David Murray, Anthony Braxton and Marion Brown.
1990: Prophesy (About Time)
1975: Air Song
1976: Live Air
1976: Air Raid
1977: Air Time
1978: Open Air Suit
1978: Montreux Suisse
1979: Air Lore
1980: Air Mail
1982: 80° Below '82
1983: Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival – as New Air
1986: Air Show No. 1 – as New Air with Cassandra Wilson
With Ahmed Abdullah
Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet (Silkheart, 1988)
With Muhal Richard Abrams
Colors in Thirty-Third (Soul Note, 1987)
The Hearinga Suite (Soul Note, 1989)
With Hamiet Bluiett
Resolution (Black Saint, 1977)
Ebu (Soul Note, 1984)
With Charles Brackeen
Attainment (Silkheart, 1987)
Worshippers Come Nigh (Silkheart, 1987)
With Peter Brötzmann
Songlines (FMP, 1991)
With Kahil El'Zabar
Love Outside of Dreams (Delmark, 2002)
With Craig Harris
Black Bone (Soul Note, 1983)
With Oliver Lake
Holding Together (Black Saint, 1976)
Expandable Language (Black Saint, 1984)
Otherside (Gramavision, 1988)
With Michael Marcus
Here At! (Soul Note, 1993)
With Jemeel Moondoc
Judy's Bounce (Soul Note, 1982)
With David Murray
Low Class Conspiracy (Adelphi, 1976)
Flowers for Albert: The Complete Concert (India Navigation, 1976)
Vol. 1:Penthouse Jazz (Circle, 1977)
Vol. 2:Holy Siege On Intrigue (Circle, 1977)
Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club (India Navigation, 1978)
Sweet Lovely (Black Saint, 1979)
Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1 (Black Saint, 1985)
Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2 (Black Saint, 1985)
In Our Style (DIW, 1986)
Recording N.Y.C. 1986 (DIW, 1986)
Ballads (DIW, 1988)
Deep River (DIW, 1988)
Spirituals (DIW, 1988)
Lovers (DIW, 1988)
Tenors (DIW, 1988)
Special Quartet (DIW/Columbia, 1990)
David Murray Big Band (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW, 1991)
Death of a Sideman (DIW, 1992)
South of the Border (DIW, 1993)
For Aunt Louise (DIW, 1993)
Love and Sorrow (DIW, 1993)
MX (Red Baron, 1993)
Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (Astor, 1996)
With Bern Nix
Alarms and Excursions (New World, 1993)
With Don Pullen
Warriors (Black Saint, 1979)
The Sixth Sense (Black Saint, 1985)
With Horace Tapscott
Dissent or Descent (Nimbus West, 1984 [1998])
With Malachi Thompson
Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1997–99)
With Henry Threadgill
X-75 Volume 1 (Arista/Novus, 1979)
When Was That? (About Time, 1981)
Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time, 1983)
Subject to Change (About Time, 1984)
You Know the Number (RCA/Novus, 1986)
Easily Slip Into Another World (RCA/Novus, 1987)
Rag, Bush and All (RCA/Novus, 1988)
With Tom Varner
Tom Varner Quartet (Soul Note, 1980)
With the World Saxophone Quartet
Breath of Life (Elektra/Nonesuch, 1992)
