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'Piano Man' Larry Hunt

Pictured here is the cover of my 1996 CD "Soul Survivor", an oil painting by the brilliant Knoxville

About Me

Hello Ladies & Gentlemen, and Children of All Ages. Thanks for checking out my page here, updated on July 7, 2008. For the past 2 1/2 years I have worked full time as a musician/performer in the orchestra of The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus AKA "The Greatest Show on Earth!". I've been traveling with them & driving my RV all over the USA. We basically travel to a different town every week! I am originally from the New York City area, but have lived and performed/worked in MANY places in America and in Western Europe. To hear examples of my jazz, and blues/rock/country music, please go to www.myspace.com/PMLarryHunt. Samples of other styles of my playing, singing, and composing are forthcoming: Classical, neo-classical, Pop/Rock, etc. I am a proud member of the American Federation of Musicians Union. I am in the process of writing a book, my autobiography. To see what I was doing prior to 2006, go to www.pianomanlarryhunt.com (through google or yahoo search will get you there). PLEASE go to www.VoteNader.org and www.MikeGravel.us and read and listen. I support Ralph Nader for president 2008. He IS on the ballot; tell Everyone you know! I'd like to dedicate this webpage to Keith Chesson, who was my manager and friend from 1992 - 96. He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly a month after "Soul Survivor" was released on Blue Fire Records. RIP, Brother, you are missed and loved.

My Interests

God, Family, Friends, Fun, Film, Music, Smiling, Travel, Adventures, Swimming, keeping physically fit, Laughter, Learning, Growing, Meher Baba, Fine Cuisine, Good Wine, Ralph Nader for President 2008 www.VoteNader.org

I'd like to meet:

Reasonably Sane People

Music:

Yosh and Stan Shmenge, Linsk Minyk, The Lemon Twins. Also: Classical: Mozart, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, Shostakovich, Robert & Clara Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Frederic Chopin, Johann Strauss Jr.Domenico Scarlatti, Josef Haydn, The 2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack...... Jazz: Horace Silver, Chet Baker, Russ Freeman (the pianist, not the Rippingtons' guy), Erroll Garner, Red Garland, Dave Frishberg, Oscar Peterson, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Jacki Byard, Vince Guiraldi, Scott LaFaro, Johnny Hartman, Hank Jones, Kenny Barron, Bill Evans, Eddie Jefferson, Blue Mitchell, Cleo Laine, Anita O'Day, Hermeto Pascoal, Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Johnny Griffin, Paul Gonsalves, Coltrane, Larry Goldings, Joey DeFrancesco, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Willie The Lion Smith, Charlie Parker; bassists Ray Brown, George Mraz, Jimmy Garrison, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson; Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Kenny Drew, Ray Nance, Ray Anderson & J.J.Johnson (trombonists), Ahmad Jamal, Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan & His Tympani 5, Charles Earland, Nat Cole, Eric Shifrin...... Blues/Rock/Country/Pop/Everything Else: Andre Previn, Dudley Moore, Procol Harum, Frank Zappa, James Booker, Mitch Woods, Lonnie Mack, Roy Buchanan, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Lee Lewis, Booker T & The MG's, J.B. Hutto, Sergio Mendez, Roy Buchanan, Maceo Parker, Papa Chubby, Son Seals, The Persuasions (recordings from the 1970 - 1997 recordings only - their newer albums are WEAK!), A.C. Reed, Noble "Thin Man" Watts, Take 6, The first 5 Blood, Sweat & Tears albums, Terry Kath, Delbert McClinton, Billy Joel, Gordon Lightfoot, Johnny & Edgar Winter, Willie Dixon & associates, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Chuck Berry, George Martin/Beatles, The "That Thing You Do!" movie soundtrack, George Thorogood, Raphael Rudd, Mark Lambert, Bob's Diner, Joe Goldberger, Raymond Kohere, Scott Sena, Moddog, Piano Man Larry Hunt. What Excellent CD I've been listening to mainly for the past few days, as of 2/15/08: "A Summer Thing" Zoot Sims. 2/24/08: "Body and Soul" Ray Nance. 3/2/08: "Embraceable You" Chet Baker. 3/14/08: "Quiet Now / Body and Soul" Stan Getz. 3/21/08: "A Greater Love" Nancy Donnelly. 4/2/08: "Spike Jones Plays The Charleston for Dancing" Spike Jones (vinyl EP). 4/13/08: "Closeup in Swing" Erroll Garner. 4/25/08: "Ears to The Wall" The Dirty Dozen. 5/10/08 "Something Magic" Procol Harum. 5/22/08: "In a Soulful Mood" Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams. 5/30/08: "Under The Big Top" The Great American Main Street Band. 6/14/08: "More Than Friends" Mark Lambert. 6/27/08: "Easy to Remember" Eric Shifrin. 7/7/08: "Brazilian Soul" Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd (To read my review of this album and other CD's, and films, go to amazon.com, find "Brazilian Soul". This review will link you to all of my other reviews. My Amazon Reviewer's name is "L. Hunt"). 8/15/08: "Time and Tide" Basia. 9/30/08: "Nina Simone and Piano" Nina Simone (easily her best album ever. She says so herself!)

Movies:

almost anything Noir, Being There, Network (1976), They Live, Guilty By Suspicion, The Spike Jones Story, Tucker: The Man & his Dream, Tender Mercies, Love and Death, The Last Polka, Ghandi, High Anxiety, JFK, Amadeus, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Top Secret!, Little Man Tate, The Jerk, My Giant, Airplane!, Swing Era: George Shearing (w/Slim Gaillard & Bam Brown!) DVD, Most Clint Eastwood movies, most Christopher Guest movies, Serpico, The Naked Gun, Time After Time (1979), Blast From The Past, Back to The Future Trilogy, Goodnite & Good Luck, The Disorderly Orderly, Back To School, Bird, Rocky Balboa, Frank Zappa Classic Albums(DVD), The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (and all of the movies that inspired it), Radio Days, Barfly, The Producers (the Original Mel Brooks movie), Catch Me If You Can, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost, Ed Wood, The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr., Star Man, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Blues Brothers.....

Television:

I don't watch much TV, so I'll use this space to list my fav comedians AND comedy TV shows: SCTV, Bobby Bittman, Slim Gaillard, Mitch Hedberg, Bill Murray, Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, The Marx Brothers, J. Seinfeld, Lewis Black, Steve DePass, Nina Conti and Monk, Steve Allen, Alex Borstein, Michael McDonald, Captain Beefheart, Soupy Sales, Chris Elliot, Sealab 2021 (Bizarro!), The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, Mel Brooks, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jerry Lewis, Billy Crystal, The Little Rascals/Our Gang shorts of the 1930's, Don Rickles, Bill Cosby, Norm McDonald, Yacht Rock, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Allen Enlow, George Wallace, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Vass & Stass, Robbie Redding,....

Books:

While The World Slept by Bhau Kalchuri, That's How It Was by Eruch Jessawalla, Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow, Electroacoustic Music: The First Century by H.A. Deutsch, Various books with great prints of the paintings of P.A. Renoir, Claude Monet, and the like. "Hit Men" by Fredric Dannen - one of Many books of it's kind, exposing the corruption and crime behind big names in the Pop / Country / Rock music biz. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO EVERYONE!

Heroes:

Meher Baba, Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, Rama, Zoroaster AKA Zarathustra. I recommend Wikipedia.com articles on these people as a decent introduction..... One of my all-time favorite quotes: "Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future". - Meher Baba. Also - (courtesy of my nephew, Paul): "People who never laugh are not serious people". - Frederic Chopin