Anton Hunter profile picture

Anton Hunter

About Me

Bearded jazz guitarist from near (and now living in) Manchester.
HUNTER/ANDREAE QUARTET - This is my baby at the moment, a quartet a co-lead with Sam Andreae on sax. Playing material that we love, but that we use at a springboard for collective improvisations. With the dual talents of Fin Panter and Gavin Barras on drums and bass respectively.
Jazzwise Magazine October 2009 Page 59
Beats 'n' Pieces Big Band - I love playing in this band so much I've even written a tune for them. Ben Cottrell's project; big band playing meets rock and electronica. Sort of.
Takahashi's Shellfish Concern with Rodrigo Constanzo on drums etc. and Angela Guyton on painting etc. Art-following-music-following-art. www.takahashisshellfishconcern.com/
Token Otter - improv trio with Ben Cottrell on bari sax and Josh Kopecek on laptop www.myspace.com/tokenotter
Skamel - 6-piece jazz/reggae band doing interesting arrangements of tunes we love. Johnny Hunter - Drums // James Adolpho - Bass // Ian White - Tenor Sax // Nick Walters - Trumpet // Tim Cox - Trombone. www.myspace.com/skamelmusic
findlay_hunter_rennie - cello_guitar/fx_trombone/laptop free-improv trio with my two colleagues from The Noise Upstairs free-jam nights. www.myspace.com/findlayhunterrennie
Nor Hate Thy Nun - "post-rock-jazz-dub" apparently. An electro-acoustic-ish duo with me on effects/tape loops, all sounds on the recording above originate from piano or double bass. www.myspace.com/norhatethynun
Leda Atomica - "bloody good" so someone said in a magazine. There are lots of ways I could to try to describe Leda Atomica. Benny Woo coined the genre "experimental post-prog-core" for us. www.myspace.com/pocketpockethelp

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/03/2007
Influences: GUITARS: Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Nelson Veras, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Cropper, Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Martin Taylor, John Scofield.

OTHERS: Charles Mingus, Harmen Fraanje, Yo La Tengo, Ingrid Laubrock, Aereogramme, Stan Tracey, Martha Wainwright, Tom Arthurs, Bobs (Marley + Dylan), Four Tet, Kanda Bongo Man, The Clash, Polar Bear, Arab Strap, Congotronics, Arve Henriksen, Shisha PM, Chris Thom, Benny Woo, Wilco, Raspigaous ,Paul Motian, Wayne Shorter, Mogwai, Acoustic Ladyland, Sigur Ros, Evan Parker, EST, Spacemen 3, The Flaming Lips, Theolonious Monk, Radiohead, The Delgados, Autechre, Brian Wilson, Bill Evans...

AND: John Peel
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Hunter/Andreae Quartet

Welcome once again to this, the most sporadic of blogs on MySpace.We've just spent a day recording our quartet with Ben Cottrell, and from early listens he's done a sterling job. I've uploaded two tr...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:18:00 GMT

Halfway through my New York trip

This place is amazing, there's so many great venues and talented musicians that there really aren't enough hours in the day. I've had a great time studying with, amongst others, Brad Shepik and Josh ...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:30:00 GMT

New York :)

I'm in New York, hurrah!I'm out here for a week to get my ass well and truly kicked on the School For Improv's Winter Intensive. This also gives me a great opportunity to catch up with my friend Ari ...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:00:00 GMT

2008...

...was good fun then. Playing in Germany with Shisha PM was great and everyone was really friendly (thanks to Annika and Craig in particular for putting us up in Hamburg - www.myspace.com/kiddecker),...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:10:00 GMT

First Blog

Just been in Brighton this weekend, rehearsing with Dan "Shisha PM" Stiles, one of the simultaneously most frustrating and rewarding people to work with. It's been nice to try doing things live that ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:28:00 GMT