Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter – SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:17 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Jazz
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SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree is the highly anticipated followup to the 2021 GRAMMY nominated eponymous album, by genre-bending trailblazers Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter. Joining forces with multi-instrumentalist duo drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison (of Richmond, VA-based jazz-funk fusion quintet Butcher Brown) for a kaleidoscopic collection of new songs, surprising covers, and dynamic reinventions, these are all animated by crafty production, crack musicianship, and Elling’s instantly identifiable vocal prowess. If the first album was a somewhat radical departure for Elling, SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree is more of an exquisite progression upon the template. Equally informed by R&B, neo-soul, classic pop, psychedelic poetry, rowdy funk, and of course jazz in all its many guises, songs like the ebullient, anthemic “Freeman Square” and the simmering, brass-blasted “Not Here/Not Now” are layered with Elling’s inventive lyricism, their supple swing and rhythmic elasticity rife with wit, pathos, and a wry sense of the human experience.
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Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, Nate Smith – Guilty Pleasures (feat. Nate Smith) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 22:08 minutes | 264 MB | Genre: Funk, Jazz
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GRAMMY award-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling builds towards his second, highly anticipated, SuperBlue album in Fall 2023 by releasing a 6-track EP ‘Guilty Pleasures,’ with guitarist Charlie Hunter and featuring special guest drummer Nate Smith – two musicians who are deservedly regarded as world leading players in their own right.
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Charlie Hunter – Right Now Move (2022 Remaster) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:59 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Funk
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Charlie Hunter is a jazz fusion guitarist known for his multi-genre work, influenced by country, pop, rock, and more. He grew up in Berkeley, California, where he graduated from Berkeley High School. His project known as the Charlie Hunter Trio got started in 1993.
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Charlie Hunter – Friends Seen and Unseen (2022 Remaster) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:52 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Charlie Hunter (born November 7, 1966 in Denver) is an American jazz, rock and fusion guitarist. He grew up in Berkeley, California, graduated from Berkeley High School and took guitar lessons with guitarist Joe Satriani.
Hunter is known for playing on an 8-string guitar built by Ralph Novak of Novax Guitars. He plays lead guitar on the lowest 5 strings (tuned on ADGHe) and bass guitar (tuned on EAD) on the top three strings at the same time. By using a Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere (Leslie rotary loudspeaker simulator), his unique playing style produces a sound similar to a Hammond organ.
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Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte – We Two Kings (2015/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:16 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
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As a young guitarist growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Charlie Hunter was looking for a way to stand out in the ’80s. His primary influences were jazz great Joe Pass and the fluid Tuck Andress (of the guitar/vocal duo Tuck & Patti), both six-string guitarists who were adept at blending bass notes into their standard guitar melodies to make themselves sound like two musicians at once. But Hunter wanted to take it one step further and set out to find an instrument on which he could simultaneously function as both a guitarist and a bassist. For his self-titled 1993 debut CD, Hunter played a seven-string guitar for the duality effect, locking down the bottom with drummer Jay Lane and mixing melodically with saxophonist David Ellis. But on his trio’s 1995 sophomore release, Bing, Bing, Bing!, Hunter unveiled his custom-made Novax eight-string, the guitar that finally allowed him to realize his capacity. Designed by Ralph Novak, the instrument featured special frets and separate signals for its guitar and bass portions. Picking bass notes with his right thumb while fretting them with his left index finger (while at the same time fingerpicking guitar chords and single notes with his right hand’s remaining four digits as he frets with his left hand’s other three fingers), Hunter achieves the real sound of two-for-one.
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Charlie Hunter – Charlie Hunter Trio Live at the Memphis Music Mansion (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:36 minutes | 541 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Charlie Hunter is an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader. First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter plays custom-made seven- and eight-string guitars on which he simultaneously plays bass lines, chords, and melodies. Critic Sean Westergaard described Hunter’s 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.
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