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The Charlie Hunter Trio at The Mint, December 12th-13th |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
 Charlie Hunter © Andrea Canter
Charlie Hunter will dazzle and delight as he plays both the bass line and guitar part on his custom seven string guitar. The Charlie Hunter trio also features Erik Deutsch on keyboards and Tony Mason on drums. As his tour swings through the west in December, the Charlie Hunter Trio will perform at the Aladdin Theater in Portland on the 8th, at Jazz Alley in Seattle on the 9th and 10th, at the Winston's Beach Club in San Diego on December 11th, at The Mint in Los Angeles on the 12th and 13th, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz on the 14th, at Yoshi's in Oakland on the 16th and 17th, and at Yoshi's in San Francisco on December 18th through the 21st.
First coming to prominence in the early '90s, Charlie Hunter has since become one of the leading names in jazz guitar, recording 17 albums. Hunter is noted for playing custom-made seven and eight-string guitars, on which he simultaneously plays basslines, rhythm guitar, and solos. Critic Sean Westergaard describes Hunter's innovative guitar technique as "mind-boggling ... he's an agile improviser with an ear for great tone, and always has excellent players alongside him in order to make great music, not to show off."
Hunter was born in Rhode Island. When he was four his mom packed him and his younger sister in an old yellow school bus and headed west. After several years living on a commune in Mendocino County they settled in Berkeley, California. Hunter graduated from Berkeley High School and took lessons from famed guitar teacher Joe Satriani. At eighteen he moved to Paris. Returning to the Bay area, Hunter played a seven-string guitar and organ in Michael Franti's political rap group, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. In 1992, they were one of the opening acts for U2's Zoo TV Tour.
Charlie Hunter performed at the Bennett Alliance Music Fest in Rochester, NY (July 21, 2007)
Since the debut of his self-titled Charlie Hunter Trio in 1993, Charlie Hunter has recorded 17 albums. He co-founded Garage A Trois, a jazz fusion band with Stanton Moore and Skerik. He has collaborated with Bobby Previte for an ongoing project entitled "Groundtruther." He also recorded and toured for Bobby Previte's The Coalition of the Willing in 2006. He appears on acclaimed jazz bassist Christian McBride's Live At Tonic. On both The Coalition of the Willing and Live at Tonic he plays 6-string guitars. His earliest known released recording without unusual guitars is as a guest bassist for the band Sweet Potato from California's East Bay. The song "Crankshaft" can be found on the Ubiquity Records compilation Mo Cookin from 1994 and the song "Monkey Wrench" can be found on the Ubiquity Records compilation Still Cookin from 1995. He also plays guitar on the track "Me and Chuck" from the Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel album, Highball with the Devil, released in 1996.
Hunter believes in free trade of his live shows. Live shows can be streamed or downloaded in various formats on archive.org.
The current trio for the 2008 album Baboon Strength and subsequent tour includes Eric Deutsch on keys and Tony Mason on drums.
Bio adapted from [[Wikipedia]]
Tour Dates:
- December 8, 2008 Aladdin Theater Portland, OR
- December 9, 2008 Jazz Alley Seattle, WA
- December 10, 2008 Jazz Alley Seattle, WA
- December 11, 2008 Winston's Beach Club San Diego,
- December 12, 2008 The Mint Los Angeles, CA
- December 13, 2008 The Mint Los Angeles, CA
- December 15, 2008 Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA
- December 16, 2008 Yoshi's Oakland, CA
- December 17, 2008 Yoshi's Oakland, CA
- December 18, 2008 Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
- December 19, 2008 Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
- December 20, 2008 Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
- December 21, 2008 Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
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