Steve Hunt (drummer)

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Steve Hunt (born August 9, 1954 in Geneva , Illinois ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , also vibraphone ).

Live and act

Hunt has been on the Chicago improvisation scene since the 1980s. Since 1980 he has played drums and vibraphone in Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble ; he also contributed a number of compositions. He toured Europe several times with the group, documented on the ECM albums The Finnish / Swiss Tour (1990) and The Hal Russell Story (1992). After Russell's death in 1992 he was still part of the NRG Ensemble , in which Ken Vandermark also played at the time .

In the mid-1990s, Hunt worked in the Trio Caffeine (with Ken Vandermark and Jim Baker ), in the formation EKS (with the pianist Eric Johnson and the bassist Kyle Jones) and with the band projects Sobriety Unleashed, A Thousand Excuses and The Stockholmoes . He also played with Andre Caporaso, Tony Suto, Jim Masters and the band Witches and Devils . From 2005 he appeared regularly with the Extraordinary Popular Delusions ensemble , which included Jim Baker, Mars Williams and Brian Sandstrom ; the album of the same name (released on Okka Disk ) was created in 2005. Since 2010 the band has performed regularly at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago. Furthermore, Hunt u. a. with Michael Zerang , Jeb Bishop , Keefe Jackson , Urs Leimgruber , Harrison Bankhead , Josh Abrams , Jason Roebke , Anton Hatwich , Nate McBride , Josh Berman , Jason Stein , Didier Petit , Kent Kessler and Artur Majewski . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1981 and 2005.

The drummer is not to be confused with the jazz pianist of the same name (* 1958).

Discographic notes

  • NRG Ensemble: Calling All Mothers (Quinnah, 1993), with Mars Williams, Ken Vandermark, Brian Sandstrom , Kent Kessler
  • Jim Baker / Steve Hunt / Ken Vandermark: Caffeine ( Okka Disk , 1994)
  • NRG Ensemble: This Is My House (Delmark, 1995)
  • Witches & Devils: At the Empty Bottle (Knitting Factory Works, 1997), with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Jim Baker, Fred Lonberg-Holm , Kent Kessler

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the beginning of the 1980s he operated the rehearsal and performance location The Hideaway , in which the Russell band also gave concerts by Jerome Cooper , Hamid Drake , Fred Anderson and Andre Caporaso . T. were transmitted by the radio station NPR.
  2. ^ Portrait at Umbrella Music
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 21, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Hunt, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva (Illinois)