Current Projects
STEVE HUDSON QUINTET/SEXTET
James Zollar - trumpet
Mark DeJong/Claire Daly - saxophone
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Steve Hudson - piano/melodica
Mike Noordzy - bass
Jerome Jennings - drums
STEVE HUDSON CHAMBER GROUP
Jody Redhage - cello/voice
Zach Brock - violin
Martin Urbach - percussion
Steve Hudson - piano
OUTER BRIDGE ENSEMBLE
Mark DeJong - saxophones
Steve Hudson - piano/keyboards
Mike Noordzy/Simon Fisk - bass
David Freeman - percussion
Jerome Jennings - drums
MARY JOYCE PROJECT
I am very excited to be collaborating with acclaimed saxophonist/composer Claire Daly on an extended suite about the life of a historic woman, Mary Joyce.
Joyce was a nurse, actress, club owner, and a fearless explorer who was the first person to travel from Juneau to Fairbanks, Alaska, by dogsled in 1936. Stay tuned for updates and performance information in 2010.
Steve Hudson is a pianist/composer whose eclectic musical projects include styles such as jazz, indie, chamber music, and world music projects. He is based out of New York City where he performs in addition to doing concerts in Canada and Europe.
He started playing at 10 years old when his family moved into a home where they had left a piano in Albany New York. He was immediately drawn to the instrument. Thanks to his art teacher at school, James Reed, he started learning a boogie woogie style of playing and played along with the records of Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Three Dog Night, and others. Years later he studied with John Nazarenko, Garry Dial, Barry Harris, Stanley Cowell, Marjean Olson, and Kenny Barron.
Over the years Steve was drawn into a wide spectrum of styles including the music of Astor Piazolla, JS Bach, James Brown, Fela Kuti, and such as jazz greats as Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Kenny Barron, and Miles Davis. Luckilly he met musicians who cared about making music rather than a particular style of music. Embracing a spirit of "let's just make music," musicans such as David Freeman, Mark Dejong, Mike Noordzy, and Tom Buckelew created the Outer Bridge Ensemble as a way of exploring and getting beyond their boundaries as musicians.
Steve currently collaborates with Claire Daly, Marcus Rojas, James Zollar, Mark DeJong, Oscar Noriega, Jerome Jennings, David Freeman, Mike Noordzy, Pascal Niggenkemper, Achille Succi, vocalist Peter Eldridge, Jody Redhage, Greg Heffernan, Zack Brock, Martin Urbach, and many others on a variety of musical projects.