Jazz Articles about Charlie Hunter

Charlie Hunter: Friends Seen and Unseen & Latitude

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
December 12, 2004

Charlie Hunter Friends Seen and Unseen Ropeadope 2004

Still mining inspiration from his relocation to New York, 8-string guitar wizard Charlie Hunter returns to the trio format for his latest release Friends Seen and Unseen. With Hunter's unique style of playing bass lines and guitar melodies simultaneously, it often sounds like a quartet, but the trio allows for more open spaces. Hunter and partners, saxophonist John Ellis and drummer Derrek Phillips, relish the opportunity ...

Charlie Hunter: Friends Seen and Unseen

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
October 15, 2004

Still mining inspiration from his relocation to New York, eight-string guitar wizard Charlie Hunter returns to the trio format for Friends Seen and Unseen. The trio offers plenty of open space, though with Hunter's unique style of playing bass lines and guitar melodies simultaneously, the group can often sound like a quartet. Hunter and his partners, saxophonist John Ellis and drummer Derrek Phillips, relish the opportunity to alternately hunker down in and float around the irresistible rhythms. The result is ...

Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Latitude

by John Kelman
August 21, 2004

Following up and developing on the concept begun with 8-string guitarist Charlie Hunter's first meeting with percussionist Bobby Previte, '03's Come in Red Dog, This is Tango Leader , the two artists form Groundtruther, a project with three proposed records to be released on the cutting edge Thirsty Ear Label, each with a different guest to round things out to a trio. If the first record, Latitude , is any indication, this is clearly like nothing we've ever heard from ...

Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Latitude

by Mark F. Turner
August 17, 2004

Take three popular and progressive mainstream jazz artists with distinct reputations and styles. Throw in a recording label known for diverse music. Add a heavy dose of experimentation, and stir.

Latitude is the first of three recordings featuring guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Bobby Previte in their side venture group, Groundtruther. Each recording will feature a different guest artist forming a trio with the intent of creating spontaneous musical themes utilizing synthesized sounds and abstract ideas. The first guest is ...

Charlie Hunter: Right Now Live! & Friends Seen and Unseen

by John Kelman
July 16, 2004

The last twelve months have been exciting ones for fans of 8-string guitarist Charlie Hunter. There has been the release of his cooperative band Garage a Trois' Emphasizer ; a duo record with Bobby Previte, Come In Red Dog This Is Tango Leader ; and a live recording from his mid-'90s collective TJ Kirk, Talking Only Makes It Worse. Coming up in the near term is the first of a projected three-CD project on Thirsty Ear, again with Previte, but ...

Charlie Hunter: Right Now Live

by Doug Collette
July 16, 2004

Something of a companion piece released same day as his new trio audio outing Friends Seen & Unseen , this DVD was recorded in winter of 2002 by 1k Studios when idiosyncratic guitarist Charlie Hunter was still working with his Quintet that recorded last year's Right Now Move. Its semi-animated graphics format conveys more than a little of the whimsy and infectious spirit in the eight-string guitarist's music, even as the bios of the individual band members and production credits ...

The Charlie Hunter Trio: Friends Seen and Unseen

by Doug Collette
July 9, 2004

Charlie Hunter is groove incarnate. Whether in his own groups, as a member of Garage a Trois, in duet with Bobby Previte, or reuniting with TJ Kirk (all this activity in the past year), this master of the eight-string guitar radiates an infectious joy that permeates his own playing as well as the musicianship of those around him. On much of his new album, Friends Seen and Unseen , Hunter sets the stage for his two partners, in just the ...