Lee Hudson

Lee Hudson (* around 1945 ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass ) of hard bop and mainstream jazz .

Live and act

Hudson grew up on Long Island and started playing bass when he was 18. A little later he worked in the New York area with musicians like Billy Mitchell and Dave Burns . He took lessons from Reggie Workman and Walter Botti, a bassist with the New York Philharmonic . Soon after, he toured with Junior Cook , Bill Hardman , Lou Donaldson , Illinois Jacquet , Arthur Prysock , Sal Nistico , Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Davis . The first recordings were made in 1968 with Dizzy Reece ( Nirvana - The Zen of the Jazz Trumpet , with Mike Longo , among others ). In the 1980s and 1990s, Hudson a. a. with Dan Axelrod ( New Ax ), Vinnie Knight, in the David Leonhardt Trio ( Jazz for Dancers ), with Dan Block ( Around the Block , 1998) and Scott Robinson ( Melody from the Sky ).

From the 2000s onwards, Hudson worked in the trio of Tardo Hammer , also with Larry Ham , Pete Malinverni , Chris Flory , Joel Press and with the singers Monika Brand, Veronica Swift , Catherine Russell ( Sentimental Streak ), Naoko Ichiizumi ( Sweet Georgia Brown ) and Marty Elkins . In the field of jazz he was involved in 28 recording sessions between 1968 and 2017. In the course of his career, Hudson has performed in well-known New York jazz clubs such as Birdland , Fat Tuesday’s , Sweet Basil , Smalls , The Village Gate , The Blue Note and Iridium .

Dave Glasser: Begin Again ( Chiaroscuro Records , 2003), with Tardo Hammer, Tony Jefferson
Charles Davis: Land of Dreams (Smalls, 2006), with Tardo Hammer, Jimmy Wormworth
Tardo Hammer: Simple Pleasure (CellarLive, 2010), with Jimmy Wormworth
Tardo Hammer Trio: Swinging on a Star (CellarLive, 2017), with Steve Williams
Marty Elkins: Fat Daddy ( Nagel-Heyer Records , 2018)