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Charlie Hunter and Lucy Woodward at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Charlie Hunter/Lucy Woodward Dazzle Denver, CO August 2, 2019 Is it possible to trace Charlie Hunter's musical evolution by the number of strings on his guitar? Back when he hit the scene in the early '90s, he played a massive 8 string guitar. (Although he was on seven string guitar for his first album, he stuck with the 8 string starting with his second album in 1995 for roughly the next decade.) The three low ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward: Music! Music! Music!
by Doug Collette
Music! Music! Music! will cement the revelatory impression guitarist Charlie Hunter and vocalist Lucy Woodward leave upon attendees of their concerts. Having repaired to the studio in November 2018, the duo maximized the spontaneity of those proceedings through the enlistment of drummer Derrek Phillips. adding a spark that further ignited the keen chemistry the pair had honed on stage. In recent years, Charlie Hunter has revealed a predilection for the blues that may very well have led to ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Hunter with Lucy Woodward at the Jazz Kitchen
by Patrick Burnette
Charlie Hunter / Lucy Woodward Jazz Kitchen Indianapolis, Indiana April 24, 2019 Eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter's latest partnership is with vocalist Lucy Woodward, a firecracker with a strong sonic resemblance to Joan Osborne and an outgoing stage presence. For their performance at the Jazz Kitchen, the duo was joined by an excellent local drummer whose name I was never quite able to make out (I was seated at the back, and the sound system favored ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Hunter: Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
by Vic Albani
Charlie Hunter chi? Ah quello che suona “strano"? Sì... proprio bravo. Può essere un buon incipit per far conoscere a chi non lo dovesse avere mai incontrato in concerto o su disco (almeno alle nostre latitudini e anche visto che i negozi di dischi sono ormai una rarità che si fa fatica a trovarne uno in una città medio piccola del nostro paese). Tornando a casa prima di scrivere questa piccola recensione, ho provato a chiedere ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Hunter: Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
by Doug Collette
Adorned with the kind of facetiously sardonic title he's applied to a few recent records, Charlie Hunter's latest album nevertheless documents further changes in his ever-restless musical persona. Not only is this, his seventeenth-plus album as a leader, on a new label, but he enlists a new accompanist and, perhaps most significant of all, returns to playing the eight-string guitar. Recorded live in a studio in Hudson, New York, on Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Hunter Trio featuring Bobby Previte and Curtis Fowlkes: Let The Bells Ring On
by Glenn Astarita
7-string guitar master, Charlie Hunter shares the spotlight with longtime colleagues, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes and drummer Bobby Previte, who are recognized for their pivotal work within New York City's progressive jazz circuit and beyond. Let The Bells Ring On is an atypical jazz groove effort of substantial proportions, not simply due to the slightly unorthodox trio setting, but more about Hunter's catchy and memorably melodic compositions that equate to a rather timeless union of funk, blues, jazz and R&B. Its ...
Continue ReadingCharlie Hunter Trio: Let the Bells Ring On
by Vincenzo Roggero
Pur avendo incrociato i loro destini nel corso degli ultimi vent'anni, in diversi contesti e con diverse formazioni è la prima volta in assoluto che Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte e Curtis Fowlkes entrano in studio di registrazione per incidere un disco come trio. Dieci brani originali a nome del chitarrista, durata media quattro minuti, tempo perfetto per raccontare senza inutili lungaggini, per mettere a fuoco immagini ed emozioni, per lasciare il segno con un suono che diventa il valore aggiunto ...
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