Stafford Hunter

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Stafford Hunter (* 1969 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ) is an American musician ( trombone , also vocals ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Hunter grew up in Philadelphia and studied at the New York New School in the Jazz & Contemporary Music program. From the 1990s he worked in the New York jazz scene in the bands and orchestras of Illinois Jacquet , McCoy Tyner , Lester Bowie & Brass Fantasy, Abdullah Ibrahim , Charli Persip , Tony Bennett , Roy Hargrove , Cab Calloway , Joss Stone , Orrin Evans , in the Mingus Big Band , also with Lauryn Hill , Frank Foster , Clark Terry ,Reggie Workman , Toshiko Akiyoshi , Lionel Hampton , Dionne Warwick , Lenny Kravitz , Muhal Richard Abrams , Steve Turre & Sanctified Shells and in the Duke Ellington Orchestra ( Ghost Band ). As a soloist, he is on the for a Grammy -nominated CD With Love of Charles Tolliver to hear big band.

Hunter released the album Honestly Speaking under his own name in 2012 . He then led the quintet Continuum , with which a self-produced album of the same name was released in 2017 (with saxophonist Todd Bashore, Victor Gould , Luques Curtis and Vince Ector ). In 2019/2020 the group (most recently as a sextet) included Taeko Fukao (vocals), Todd Bashore and Josh Evans (trumpet), Davis Whitfield (piano), Ryan Berg (bass) and Darrell Green (drums). In the field of jazz, he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1995 and 2017, according to Tom Lord . Under his own name In addition to music, he also worked as a model and actor; u. a. he appeared in a documentary about Dorothy Donegan .

Discographic notes

  • Oliver Lake Big Band: Wheels (2013)
  • Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band: Mother's Touch (2014)
  • Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band: Presence (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stafford Hunter, Composer, Trombone, Vocalist. Smalls, January 1, 2020, accessed January 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Charles Tolliver: With Love. In: JazzTimes . March 1, 2007, accessed January 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 18, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Stafford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician (trombone, also vocals) of modern jazz
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlantic City , New Jersey