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BIOGRAPHY Brian Hudson is a professional drummer and educator living in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been studying and playing music for over 20 years and has performed hundreds of shows before thousands of people throughout the southeastern United States. He has performed with musicians from some of the top bands in the United States including musicians from
The Ohio Players, Collective Soul (former member), Cindy
Wilson Band (of The B-52s), Tyler Perry’s band 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 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 with various artists, teaching privately and conducting drum clinics for elementary school children.
He endorses Taye Drums GoKit, Silverfox Drumsticks and UniGrip Specialty Products.
He endorses Silverfox Drumsticks and UniGrip Specialty Products |