Charlie Hunter Trio - Mistico

Artist: Charlie Hunter Trio
Title: Mistico
Label: Fantasy
UPC: 888072302655
Price: $11.98

Charlie Hunter Trio - Mistico Track Listing

1 - Lady!
2 - Speakers Built In
3 - Estranged
4 - Balls
5 - Wizard Sleeve
6 - Drop a Dime
7 - Spoken Word
8 - Special Shirt
9 - Mistico
10 - Chimp Gut

About Charlie Hunter Trio - Mistico

The Bay Area-born guitarist Charlie Hunter burst on to the scene in the '90s with his eight-string guitar, which enabled him to simultaneously play solos, melodic lines, and basslines. After collaborating artists like Norah Jones, Kurt Elling, and Mos Def, Hunter returns to his familiar triad format with drummer Simon Lott and keyboardist Erik Deutsch. Armed with a filed-down, seven-string axe, Hunter's edgy, twangy tones owe more to grunge than to Grant Green. This 10-track CD spotlights the leader's jazz-fluent soloing, counterpointed by some spirited rock-friendly fusion, as especially on the Crescent City syncopated "Wizard Sleeve," the super-swinging, multi-tempo "Spoken Word," and the cavernous melodic mood on "Ballad." Hunter doesn't break musical barriers per se; he redraws them, and in doing so, writes his own sonic signature on the open stylistic canvas that covers this still-young century. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Charlie Hunter Trio - Mistico Reviews

Average Rating: 4.0

Rating: 5
This album is all over the place, in a good way. It has the a solid jazz/fusion feel, with a rock 'n roll edge and some blues undertones with pleanty of funk to go around. The album has a wonderful flow yet each song is unique and interesting. Select tracks: Mistico, Spoken Word, Balls, Speakers Built In.

Rating: 5
Charlie es un guitarrista que la musica que presenta en este disco puede ser calificada como de atemporal por su personalidad y riesgo.
No se parece a nadie y muestra pese a su juventud un evolucion manifiesta.

Rating: 2
I bought this album awhile back and have listened to it once or twice. While not really horrible, it is simply full of boring music. Boring and tired rock/jazz grooves, nothing new.

I like Charlie Hunter as a player. He's an amazing 8 string player (though I don't think that good of a guitarist or bassist), but this sound is tired and is being done way better by other bands.

MSMW, Kneebody, Dave Douglas and Keystone. Check out these bands for some killer (FRESH) jazz/experimental rock.

Rating: 4
This CD isn't literally classic rock, but Charlie Hunter's grooves, song forms, and bluesy playing is close to it for a jazz CD. For this one, he has a keyboardist and drummer. He also downsizes his guitar -- no longer an 8-string guitar, it's a 7-string. It also sounds like he isn't playing as much self-accompanied bass. It sounds like the keyboard plays a lot of bass lines. I consider that an improvement, because unfortunately having the bassist and guitarist share the same brain (in past Hunter CD's) and hands hasn't worked out to more mind-blowing improvisations than a more traditional setup. "Lady!" and "Speakers Built In" are both jaunty songs, and a nice way to start. "Estranged" is bluesier and slower. "Balls" is very classic rock sounding. The guitar riff and Kenny Aranoff-style drums almost scream "John Cougar!". The song is mainly a drum solo. "Wizard Sleeve" is funkier than average. "Drop A Dime" is somewhat sludgy. "Spoken Word" is a faster song, with a very worried feel to it. "Special Shirt" is another jaunty one, with a nice blues piano solo. "Mistico" is slow and bluesy, and "Chimp Gut" is another jaunty strut. This is a pretty good CD, though I feel its simplicity works against it, it's really a 3.75 star CD.

Rating: 1
Cacaphony and melodic mush. This album was very disappointing. As a lover of fusion, jazz, rock, worldbeat....music in general, this album requires a lot of patience to feel where the musicians were going. It's a clashing discordant ball of disappointed listening. And I WANTED to like it!