Superblue Kurt Elling Charlie Hunter Lpr The followup to 2021’s remarkable superblue, the album once again sees elling joining forces with producer guitarist charlie hunter and multi instrumentalist duo drummer corey fonville and bassist keyboardist dj harrison for a kaleidoscopic collection of new songs, surprising covers, and dynamic reinventions. The followup to 2021’s remarkable superblue, the album once again sees elling joining forces with producer guitarist charlie hunter and multi instrumentalist duo drummer corey fonville and bassist keyboardist dj harrison for a kaleidoscopic collection of new songs, surprising covers, and dynamic reinventions.
Superblue Kurt Elling Charlie Hunter Lpr The afterlife superblue: the iridescent spree is the highly anticipated followup to the 2021 grammy nominated eponymous album, by genre bending trailblazers kurt elling & charlie hunter. joining forces with multi instrumentalist duo drummer corey fonville and bassist keyboardist dj harrison (of richmond, va based jazz funk fusion quintet. Kurt elling and charlie hunter follow up their grammy nominated 2021 album, superblue (edition), with another sublime blend of jazz and groove. as on the first disc, jazz is represented by elling, groove by butcher brown keyboardist dj harrison and drummer corey fonville. hunter, who has had a foot in both camps for over two decades, acts as. Kurt elling & charlie hunter superblue: the iridescent spree. by barney whittaker. kurt elling (image: angus mcdonald) try and deny it all you might, but you’ll have to admit there’s always someone smoother than you – that is, unless you’re miles davis, as kurt elling helpfully informs us on ‘freeman square’, the second track on. Elling’s work with charlie hunter – a prodigious musician and producer whose own genre agnostic oeuvre has long seen him crisscrossing the bridge between jazz and hip hop – began after their first meeting in 1995, an on and off collaboration that ultimately brought them to a completely unexpected destination with 2021’s superblue.
Kurt Elling Charlie Hunter Superblue The Iridescent Spree Limited Kurt elling & charlie hunter superblue: the iridescent spree. by barney whittaker. kurt elling (image: angus mcdonald) try and deny it all you might, but you’ll have to admit there’s always someone smoother than you – that is, unless you’re miles davis, as kurt elling helpfully informs us on ‘freeman square’, the second track on. Elling’s work with charlie hunter – a prodigious musician and producer whose own genre agnostic oeuvre has long seen him crisscrossing the bridge between jazz and hip hop – began after their first meeting in 1995, an on and off collaboration that ultimately brought them to a completely unexpected destination with 2021’s superblue. Thanks to newly sprung melody and lyrics from elling, along with hunter & co.’s fresh grooves, superblue features all new songs, innovative takes on compositions from jazz lions wayne shorter and freddie hubbard, and a raw and stripped down treatment of “the seed,” a still dynamic, decades old riff on immortality written by cody chestnutt. Charlie hunter plays hybrid guitars, two rock amplifiers, & d’addario strings corey fonville endorses ludwig drums, zildjian cymbals, vicfirth sticks, & evans drumheads superblue: the iridescent spree is the highly anticipated followup to the 2021 grammy nominated eponymous album, by genre bending trailblazers kurt elling & charlie hunter.
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