Source: BBC
Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer who comes from
a background of both the Avant-Garde and the more mainstream Jazz. He has performed or recorded with such
esteemed musicians as Benn Clatworthy, Mick Beck, Nat Birchall, Jamil Sheriff,
Jamie Taylor, Pete Fairclough, Walt Shaw, Corey Mwamba, Steve Beresford, Graham
Clark, Adam Fairhall and Steve Berry to name a few. He is also heavily involved in the Reggae and
Dub scene.
He is currently playing with Misha Gray’s Prehistoric Jazz
Quintet, Liverpool-based group playing heavy modal Jazz inspired by John
Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and the like; Nat Birchall; Engine Room Favourites,
AACM inspired Free Jazz; the Blind Monk Trio, sax/bass/drums trio playing heavy
rootjazz; the Dub Jazz Soundsystem, a mash-up of heavy Dub and psychedelic
modal Jazz; Skamel, a Ska/Jazz/Dub ensemble inspired by the French Reggae group
Raspigaous; his own “chordless” quartet set up to explore the freedom and limitations
of having no chordal instrument; among several other projects. He also runs the Jazz jam night at Matt &
Phred’s Jazz Club.
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