Jazz Articles about Charlie Hunter

Charlie Hunter: Baboon Strength

by Dave Major
October 3, 2008

Guitarist Charlie Hunter is a musician on a journey. Never to be satisfied with a ravishingly successful recording career spanning 17 albums, he has continued to explore his own musical tastes, not to pander to his fans, or necessarily in search of something, but merely following the currents of his musical self. Continuing the evolution of his style and sound, Baboon Strength builds convincingly on the preceding Mistico (Fantasy, 2007), drilling down deeper into a groove aesthetic that has seemingly ...

Charlie Hunter: Mistico

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 12, 2007

Il chitarrista nativo della Bay Area rinnova ancora il suo trio e per questo ultimo album intitolato Mistico si fa affiancare dal tastierista Erik Deutsch e dal batterista Simon Lott, spostando contestualmente il tiro verso un rock venato di funky e di fusion che lascia intravedere meno frequentemente gli stilemi jazzistici che pure fanno parte del bagaglio culturale e stilistico del chitarrista. La scelta sembra quella di abbandonare inutili complessità per estrarre una sorta di distillato che scorre via fluido, ...

Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude

by Lyn Horton
December 5, 2007

Music correlating to physicality gives it a fertile meaning, a meaning that lifts it out of its abstract plane into a zone that is identifiable. Listening becomes more than moving through time; it becomes a process of imagination and fulfillment.

Drummer Bobby Previte and guitarist Charlie Hunter have interpreted three descriptors of the earth in a trilogy of releases. Latitude came in 2004, Longitude in 2005, and now Altitude in 2007, all on Thirsty Ear. The ...

Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude

by Troy Collins
September 23, 2007

After three years and as many records, drummer Bobby Previte and guitarist Charlie Hunter bring their experimental trio project Groundtruther to a triumphant conclusion. Previte and Hunter have invited a rotating third member to play on each release; Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004) featured saxophonist Greg Osby, while Longitude (Thirsty Ear, 2005) starred DJ Logic. Keyboardist John Medeski joins the duo for Altitude, their third and final album.

Osby and Logic each put their own stamp on the trio, ...

Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude

by John Kelman
September 19, 2007

Like a three act play, guitarist Charlie Hunter and percussionist Bobby Previte's Groundtruther project saves the best for last. Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004) teamed them with intrepid saxophonist Greg Osby and while both Hunter and Previte have never been technologically challenged, it represented, individually, their most extreme integration of processing/sampling with conventional instrumentation. Likewise, Longitude (Thirsty Ear, 2005), featuring guest turntablist DJ Logic, found a curious meeting place between free improvisation and groove; moving away, however, from the general funkiness ...

The Charlie Hunter Trio: Mistico

by Doug Collette
September 8, 2007

On the CD tray photo of Mistico, all three members of The Charlie Hunter Trio are shown laughing heartily with each other. It's an appropriate picture, given the joy they exude playing together on this CD of original music by the guitarist/bandleader, which suits the evocative cover art and album title.

The Charlie Hunter Trio sounds like the essence of easygoing right from the start as they amble into motion on the opening track “Lady!." Their deceptively casual approach belies ...

Charlie Hunter Trio: Mistico

by Chris May
July 31, 2007

On Mistico, Charlie Hunter finally, after a couple of near misses, gets in touch with his inner rock guitarist. The disc's immediate predecessors--Copperopolis (Ropeadope, 2006) and Longitude (Thirsty Ear, 2005)--inhabited similarly full-on visceral territory, but here those albums' funk quotients are reduced to practically zero in favor of dirty, confrontational, rock 'n' roll. Nothing on Mistico is on the one. It's all on the two and four. It ain't bad so much as it's nasty.

It's simple, lo-fi ...