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Anton Hunter

Anton Hunter is a composer and improviser living in Manchester. He leads the 11-piece Article XI band as well as his own trio, both with records on Efpi Records. Also ongoing is a duo with baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts called Ripsaw Catfish, Cath’s quintet Sloth Racket, the trio Beck Hunters and a myriad of other different ensembles, ad hoc and otherwise. He is perhaps still better known for his work as guitarist in the Beats & Pieces Big Band, a group he is a founder member of and who continue to defy the odds simply by gigging as a 14 piece jazz ensemble in the UK, Europe and, in 2018, Canada & the US. He manages to fit all this in around his busy schedule of being outraged on Twitter where he can be found @HunterAnton.

Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis: Practical Dreamers

Read "Practical Dreamers" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 11, 2024

Practical Dreamers is the fifth collaboration between Discus label boss multi-instrumentalist Martin Archer and veteran saxophonist Ron Caines, and like the others, situates the latter's largely introspective reeds within varied electro-acoustic soundscapes. Caines was a founding member of progressive British rock band East Of Eden back in 1967, but after leaving to pursue jazzier endeavors, he performed with the likes of Evan Parker, Steve Lacy and Keith Tippett. While the pair's previous release, the excellent Blutopia (Discus, ...

Live Review

Holding Hands & Article XI At The Norfolk & Norwich Festival

by John Sharpe
June 2, 2021

Holding Hands & Article XI The Garage Norfolk & Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 25, 2021 With the UK slowly reopening as the vaccination program diminishes the reach of Covid 19, live performance once more becomes a possibility. Major kudos to the Norfolk & Norwich Festival team for pressing ahead with live programming of not just this event but much of the rest of the two-week-long annual festivities, albeit with reduced, socially distanced ...

Album Review

Anton Hunter: Article XI

Read "Article XI" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 5, 2018

If Frank Zappa had been co-musical director of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra then the results might have sounded something like Article XI. Think Carla Bley's charts, Haden's missionary passion and Zappa's sudden shifts in direction and you may begin to get an idea of the terrain Anton Hunter's eleven-piece band explore on this live performance--the band's debut. Commissioned by the Manchester Jazz Festival in 2014, the title refers to Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which ...

“an impressive document of Hunter’s approach to composition and group improvisation… characterised by strong themes, inventive group playing [and] rich horn charts in the key of Ellington and Bley” Stewart Smith, The Wire on Article XI

“this high-level music’s human warmth can almost be touched” Nick Hasted, Jazzwise on Article XI

"If Frank Zappa had been co-musical director of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra then the results might have sounded something like Article XI. Think Carla Bley's charts, Haden's missionary passion and Zappa's sudden shifts in direction and you may begin to get an idea of the terrain" Ian Patterson, All About Jazz on Article XI