Charlie Hunter
Charlie Hunter
Charlie Hunteris an American guitarist, composer and bandleader...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 May 1967
CountryUnited States of America
play way fickle
I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
jam band shapes
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.
white stripes records
I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.
thinking issues focus
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
american-musician fill people
But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.
bobby editing great harding job mixing record
Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.
emphasis manage time waste
You've just got to manage your time and do as much as you can, and not place too much emphasis on one or the other. You try not to waste your time.
american-musician concept course dealing generally people rhythm solo
I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.
american-musician became biggest fourth knew member played realized smallest sound trio
And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
american-musician force parameters particular playing trying
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!
music trios sound
The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
music thinking style
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.
player space magic
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
want jazz kind
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.