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Charlie Hunter Quintet - Right Now Move (2003) {Ropeadope 0-7567-93137-2-0}
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© 2003 Ropeadope Records ‎| 0-7567-93137-2-0
Jazz / Modern Postbebop / Experimental / Jazz Funk / 8 String Guitar

On his first album for a new label (after seven with Blue Note), the mercurial Charlie Hunter again works with a new group of musicians. Unlike the vocal-heavy Songs From the Analog Playground, Hunter returns to instrumentals on these 13 tracks. But it's the unique makeup of his band that gives this music its offbeat, eclectic, yet soothing qualities. Backed by drums and a two-piece horn section (Curtis Fowlkes on trombone and John Ellis on tenor sax), it's the group's fifth member – Gregoire Maret on chromatic harmonica – that really twists this music into unusual and previously unchartered waters.

Don Byron - You Are #6 (2001) {Blue Note 7243 5 32231 2 0}
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© 2001 Blue Note / Capitol Records | 7243 5 32231 2 0
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Post Bop / Clarinet

Don Byron's fourth Blue Note album is a belated follow-up to 1995's Music for Six Musicians. Six musicians are once again featured here, but they're joined by a large number of guests, bringing the cumulative total to 20. As always, Byron looks to unlikely sources for inspiration, beginning with Henry Mancini's theme from the 1962 John Wayne flick Hatari. (The artist is a diligent student of Mancini's music in general.) The rest of the tracks are originals, save for "Shake 'Em Up," a calypso party song that features Don Byron, Sr. on bass and Designer on vocals.