Everything we did, we did live – and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you’ve ever heard. Charlie Hunter Read Quote
Ultimately, at the end of it, it’s just trying to get into that space where you feel like you’re hitting the right thing and you’re making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive. Charlie Hunter Read Quote
Yeah, it’s more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It’s not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters – and the parameters we play in are pretty large! Charlie Hunter Read Quote
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that’s larger than than the individual parts. Charlie Hunter Read Quote
I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it’s all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That’s essentially at least my concept of what that group is. Charlie Hunter Read Quote
That’s the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility – but not have it be about solos. Charlie Hunter Read Quote
If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it. Charlie Hunter Read Quote
