◇ image via WikipediaCharlie Hunter
Charlie Hunter is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Susana Baca, Snarky Puppy, Joe Pass, Joe Satriani and Thelonious Monk. Those roots explain a lot about how Charlie Hunter arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Stanton Moore, Soulive, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The New Mastersounds and Lettuce, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Michael Franti, Norah Jones, Mos Def, Frank Ocean and John Mayer, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Charlie Hunter, reaching back through Susana Baca and forward to Michael Franti. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Charlie Hunter is an American guitarist, composer, producer 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." Hunter's technique is rooted in the styles of jazz guitarists Joe Pass and Tuck Andress, two of his biggest influences, who blended bass notes with melody in a way that created the illusion of two guitars.
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Charlie Hunter connections
Charlie Hunter grew out of Susana Baca, Snarky Puppy, Joe Pass and Joe Satriani, shares an orbit with Stanton Moore, Soulive, Medeski, Martin and Wood and The New Mastersounds, went on to shape Michael Franti, Norah Jones, Mos Def and Frank Ocean. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Delvon Lamarr Organ Trioartist
- Mark Lettieriartist
- Snarky Puppyartist
- Cory Wongartist
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- Chick Coreaartist
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