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Charlie Hunter
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Out of 28 votes - Similar Artists: John Scofield, Soulive, Wes Montgomery, Medeski, Martin and Wood
Out of 28 votes
- Location: Montclair, New Jersey, United States
- Genre: Jazz » Soul-Jazz
Editor's review
Childhood lessons with a then-unknown Joe Satriani are a solid start for any budding axeman, but here's guessing few of Joe's pupils had what Charlie's got. Hunter's skuzzy, jam-rock jazz guitar matches everything from Zappa's era to postmodern jazz's rediscovery of melody.
Biography
At any given Charlie Hunter show, newcomers are easily spotted. They are the ones looking around the room for the bass player, or maybe the keyboard player, or both! What they soon realize is that all of these sounds are coming from one man and his eight-string guitar. "I knew that I wanted to do this with my life from when I was 16", says Hunter about his musical career. His early recognition of this may have been influenced by the fact that he grew up in homes where his mother repaired guitars for a living in Berkeley, California where he has lived since he was eight years old. Charlie picked up his first guitar when he was twelve years old for $7, and a few years later was taking lessons from Joe Satriani, who at that time was just another guitar teacher. "People can't believe that but I was just another Berkeley kid and every Berkeley kid took lessons from Joe Satriani. He must have had a hundred students. He's a great teacher."
