BIOGRAPHY
Brian Hudson is an Atlanta based freelance drummer and

educator. He has been studying and playing music for

over 20 years and has performed hundreds of shows

before tens of thousands of people throughout the

southeastern United States.  He has performed with

musicians from  some of the top bands in the U.S.

including  musicians from The Ohio Players, Collective

Soul (former member), Cindy Wilson Band (of The B-52s), 

Tyler Perry’s band, Zac Brown Band, Jason Aldean and

others.  His  influences cover  the spectrum of music

ranging from  classical to jazz  to rock to R&B to Latin.

He attended the University of South Florida in Tampa for two 
years where he studied jazz performance and drumset and 
performed in the Symphony Orchestra and several jazz 
combos.   He later transferred and graduated from the 
University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. He studied with 
USF Professor David Hardman and Jason Harnell (Maynard 
Ferguson) and has had private lessons with Dave Weckl, Dom 
Famularo and Grammy Award winner Mark Walker 
Oregon/Paquito D'Rivera/ Berklee).

Brian has performed with various pop/rock, country  and jazz 
artists around the Southeast. Most notably is his playing with 
roots rock band and former Capricorn Recording Artists 
Memory Dean.   Since Hudson joined the band in 2001, 
Memory Dean has performed hundreds of shows in the 
southeast in support of their six albums and has shared 
the stage with national artists such as Sister Hazel, 
Cowboy Mouth, Shawn Mullins and many others. 

Brian has also made a name for himself as one of the top 
contemporary jazz drummers in Atlanta due to his funk 
oriented grooves, great meter and solid feel for the pocket. 
He has performed with such artists as Japanese jazz/fusion 
artist MADOCA & Company, Just Ahead (featuring Derwin 
Daniels on sax and Earl Fleming on keys of The Ohio Players), 
smooth jazz/ R&B keyboardist Brian Clay, Waterlines Trio, 
jazz guitarist Joe Palese, saxophonist Kelly O’Neal, pianist 
Darren Ginn and others.

In addition, Brian can be heard on the new album, “Naked,” by 
pop singer Steve Baskin. The first single, “Catch Me If You 
Can” is receiving extensive air play in over a dozen states.

Brian currently resides in metro Atlanta where he stays busy 
doing session work, performing live as a "hired gun/contract

drummer" with various artists, playing with The Edge Worship

Band at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, teaching privately and

conducting  drum clinics for elementary school children.

He endorses Taye Drums GoKit, Silverfox Drumsticks and 
UniGrip Specialty Products.