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Charlie Hunter Quintet

Ready...set...shango!
Reviewed by Josef Woodard | Jun 21, 1996
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Ready...set...shango!; Genre: Jazz

He has been roped into the acid-jazz corral, but Charlie Hunter — who juggles bass lines and guitar parts on his eight-string guitar — really descends from the old school of funk-jazz cool. On Charlie Hunter Quintet, his finest album yet, Hunter adds another horn to the band and dispenses lovable looseness, with the BBQ-saucy grooves and brainy turns that make him one of the brighter upstarts around. B+

Originally posted Jun 21, 1996 Published in issue #332 Jun 21, 1996 Order article reprints

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