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Charlie Hunter & Friends at The Falcon

Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on December 5, 2017

Where

The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970

When

Thu, December 28, 2017
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Michael Blake
saxophone, tenor

About

ince the debut of his self-titled "Charlie Hunter Trio", the "Uber-Prolific" Charlie Hunter has recorded seventeen albums; co-founded Garage A Trois, a jazz fusion band with Stanton Moore and Skerik; collaborated with Bobby Previte's ongoing project "Groundtruther"; recorded and toured for Previte's "The Coalition of the Willing"; and appears on acclaimed jazz bassist Christian McBride's "Live At Tonic".

After nearly 20 years of recording, it’s remarkable how much ground Charlie Hunter has covered. Rising out of the Bay Area jazz scene with a freakish virtuosity on a custom eight-string guitar that allowed him to play bass and melody lines simultaneously, Hunter performed at Lollapalooza in 1993 and released the first of six albums for Blue Note in 1995. Since then he’s recorded with musicians that include drummer Leon Parker, vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Norah Jones, who sang on two tracks for Hunter’s 2001 album “Songs From the Analog Playground.”...

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