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Charlie Hunter

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"I knew that I wanted to do this with my life from when I was 16", says Hunter about his musical career. His early recognition of this may have been influenced by the fact that he grew up in homes where his mother repaired guitars for a living in Berkeley, California where he has lived since he was eight years old. Charlie picked up his first guitar when he was twelve years old for $7, and a few years later was taking lessons from Joe Satriani, who at that time was just another guitar teacher. "People can't believe that but I was just another Berkeley kid and every Berkeley kid took lessons from Joe Satriani

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New music from Scott Henderson, Fernando Utreras, Kinga Glik and Jakob Manz

Read "New music from Scott Henderson, Fernando Utreras, Kinga Glik and Jakob Manz" reviewed by Len Davis


New music from Scott Henderson's Karnevel, from Connecticut the band Goose, guitarist Fernando Utreras' Reflejos featuring Brandon Scott Coleman. Polish bassist Kinga Glyk, and German band The Jakob Manz Project. French progressive band Coccolite, and some funky sounds from Sam Fribush with Charlie Hunter, and Otis McDonald with his latest. From Italy Lo Greco Brothers and ...

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Article: Album Review

Sick Boss: Businessless

Read "Businessless" reviewed by Chris May


This bracing sophomore album from Vancouver's improvising sextet Sick Boss resonates with the beyond-genre territory of the late Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die quartet. At a surface level there is the shared use of trumpet and cello, but deeper than that, Businessless embraces the riot grrrl abandon so beloved of Branch. Echoes of Fly Or Die ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Reverso, Butcher Brown, Lawrence Fields, Lluc Casares & More

Read "Reverso, Butcher Brown, Lawrence Fields, Lluc Casares & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


At this stop we focus on up-and-coming pianists, Butcher Brown's eclecticism and some interesting European projects.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Butcher Brown feat. Charlie Hunter “Espionage" Solar Music (Concord Jazz) 0:16 Host talks 4:03 Lawrence Fields “Yasorey" To the Surface (Rhythm 'n' Flow) ...

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Article: Album Review

Gili Lopes: Algures

Read "Algures" reviewed by Doug Collette


Bassist, composer, musical director and producer Gili Lopes is nothing if not an astute judge of talent. After all, for Algures (from an old Portuguese word meaning 'somewhere'), he has recruited a redoubtable case of accompanists, not the least of whom is saxophonist John Ellis, he of fruitful collaborations with Charlie Hunter and Miguel Zenon among ...

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Article: Album Review

Martin Iaies featuring Julian Arguelles: New Beginnings

Read "New Beginnings" reviewed by Chris May


Born in Argentina but resident in Graz, Austria since 2019, Martin Iaies' aptly titled New Beginnings is the guitarist's second album, following Rewind & FF (El Club del Disco, 2018). And it is a zinger. In Graz, Iaies completed formal guitar studies in 2022, and recorded New Beginnings the same year. He leads ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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When The Levee Breaks: The Music Of Memphis Minnie

Label: The Little Village Foundation
Released: 2023
Track listing: Me And My Chauffeur; When The Levee Breaks; You; Can't Rule Me; When You Love Me; Blues Everywhere; Crazy Crying Blues; World Of Trouble; Pile Driving Blues; Hole In The Wall; Hard Down Lie; HooDoo Lady; New Bumble Bee.

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SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Black Crow; Freeman Square; Naughty Number Nine; Little Fairy Carpenter; Bounce It; Only The Lonely Woman; Right About Now; Not Here Not Now; The Afterlife.

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Article: 72 Jazz Thrillers

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 2020-2023

Read "The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 2020-2023" reviewed by Robert Middleton


In the 72 Jazz Thrillers series we've gone from 1969 to 2023, an expansive 54-year journey. From the jazz vanguard of Bitches Brew to the dynamic movie soundtrack of Roy's World, from the sublime guitar of Bill Frisell to the singing guitar of Charlie Ballantine, the thing that all these jazz albums have in common is ...


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