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Charlie Hunter Trio
- Charlie Hunter, Guitar
Erik Deutsch, Keyboard
Tony Mason, Drums
Born in Rhode Island and raised in the Bay Area, innovative guitarist Charlie Hunter has continued to surprise, engage and enthrall audiences since he arrived on the scene in 1993. Two years later, Blue Note Records signed the bourgeoning musician who had performed on the streets of Europe and in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., and issued Bing, Bing, Bing. An energetic and searching improviser, Hunter, who makes his first “We Always Swing” Jazz Series appearance this season with his trio, has, at last count, something close to 20 recordings to his name.
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 in the All Music Guide described 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.”
Stylistically, a Hunter performance generally reflects the wide array of collaborators and associates he’s worked with during the course of his 15-year career. The guitarist is truly a “fusion” artist that has successfully melded jazz with rock, blues, funk, soul and even folk. In 2007 he released Mistico where he worked keyboardist Erik Deutsch and drummer Simon Lott, both who will join him for his show here.
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"Through his years on the Blue Note and Ropeadope labels, the terrific guitarist with the undeterred interest in both rockadelic high jinks and braniac abstraction has found one thing he can't do without. Whether playing arranged duets with Leon Parker (Calypso For Grandpa) or inventing instantaneous ditties with Bobby Previte (Up There), he prioritizes the groove."
—Jim Macnie, Downbeat
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Jazz Series Launches Annual Fund as dollar-for-dollar match for major NEA Jazz Masters Live
This is a special year for us. As recipients of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts – the Jazz Masters Live Initiative we are required to match the award dollar for dollar. The goal: $30,000 – and we need do reach it by February 18, 2008 – the day commissioned composer and Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer returns to Missouri to conduct the world premier of his new work performed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. This season your tax-deductible donation to the Jazz Series goes twice as far.
Make a tax-deductible pledge (PDF) do the Jazz Series and we will apply it toward matching the NEA grant special NEA grant – one of only 12 in the country that allowed us to commission new work, and present one of the best big bands in the world at the Missouri Theatre. As a way of saying “Thank You” we’re pleased do offer tickets to this one-of-a-kind event—and a the most recent CD from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra CD – which is a part of University of Missouri’s Arts & Science Week.
Jazz Series Receives NEA Grant
“We Always Swing” Jazz Series snags prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Live grants…
Organization, one of only 12 presenters in the United States selected to receive $30,000 award paves the way for Missouri native and NEA Jazz Master Bob Brookmeyer to compose new work for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. New York-based, 16-piece orchestra arrives in Columbia to perform world premiere February 18, 2009, at the Missouri Theatre with Brookmeyer as guest conductor. Also on hand: Dan Morgenstern, fellow NEA Jazz Master and Director of Rutgers Jazz Institute. The world renowned historian will serve as guest emcee and host a pair of forums: a one-on-one interview with Brookmeyer and an in-depth look into the chronology of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, which has been holding court at jazz’s most famous basement – The Village Vanguard – since 1965. Much-anticipated events serve as centerpiece for MU’s Arts & Science Week.
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