Jazz Articles about Charlie Hunter

Charlie Hunter Trio: Copperopolis

by Mark F. Turner
February 4, 2006

To say that guitarist Charlie Hunter's been busy is an understatement. Constantly touring and collaborating with Garage à Trois and Groundtruther, he still found time to record Copperopolis with a trio that has been together for over five years. This followup to 2004's Friends Seen and Unseen finds Hunter with drummer Derrek Phillips and saxophonist John Ellis exploring a rock-oriented sound. The music still grooves, but with more bite and grit, marked by harder rhythms and edgier ...

Charlie Hunter: Solo Inventions

by John Kelman
October 30, 2005

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While Charlie Hunter has already released a concert DVD, Right Now Live! (Ropeadope, 2003), featuring him in solo, trio and quintet settings, Solo Inventions is anything but redundant. First, this 50-minute DVD--produced as part of Original Spin Media's Solo: The Jazz Sessions series--documents Hunter's continued growth on his unique eight-string instrument, combining elements of electric bass and guitar. Second, it includes brief interview segments that ...

Charlie Hunter: Living the Music

by Paul Olson
September 26, 2005

Eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter has stunned audiences for years with his virtuosic ability to play simultaneous bass and guitar lines, sounding at times more like a Hammond organist than a guitarist. The Hammond sound's just one of Hunter's trademark tones, however, and his technical prowess shouldn't stand in the way of appreciating his considerable talents as a composer and bandleader. Whether playing in a quartet, quintet, trio, duo or solo format (he's done plenty of recording and gigging in all ...

Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Longitude

by Michael McCaw
August 5, 2005

Groundtruther is an interesting project for Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte. Each player has long established a solid musical realm of his own on recordings, but with their Groundtruther collaboration, they have found a guise that allows them to experiment well beyond their usual territories. This also explains why Matthew Shipp and Thirsty Ear are releasing a trilogy of albums by the duo (plus a guest on each), Longitude being the second.Following the cerebral, flattened sound of Latitude ...

Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Longitude

by Mark Corroto
July 10, 2005

If recordings were comic books, then the latest offering from Bobby Previte and Charlie Hunter's project, Groundtruther, would be packed full of the captions “Blammo, “Whap, “and “Boom!

The duo teamed up on the 2003 Red Dog, This Is Tango Leader and soon went on the create the Groundtruther project which invites a third artist to collaborate. Last year it was saxophonist Greg Osby on Latitude, and a third disc, Altitude, will be forthcoming.

Where ...

Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Longitude

by Chris May
July 7, 2005

The second volume in Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte's planned trilogy of Groundtruther albums, Longitude is both more extreme and more rock-oriented than its predecessor, last year's Latitude. That album included Greg Osby as its featured guest musician, and though it was light years away from the mainstream aesthetic in its focus on electronica, soundscapes, and new technology, it would probably still be recognised as jazz by many members of this community.

Longitude, by contrast, features turntablist DJ ...

Charlie Hunter Trio: Live at The Magic Bag

by Mark Sabbatini
April 24, 2005

This being America, we'll blame guitarist Charlie Hunter's talent and generosity. The person who labored to make this recording is merely the victim of unfair competition.

Hunter is among a handful of top-tier jazz musicians who allows audience taping of his shows for distribution and even goes a step further by offering three albums' worth of material at his official web site. As such, dozens of concerts from the past decade are free for the grabbing and this ...