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Award-winning trombonist, composer and arranger Andy Hunter comes out of a lineage of study with Robin Eubanks and Conrad Herwig. Born in the small town of Grayling, Michigan (located half way between the uniquely named cities of Paradise, Michigan, and Hell, Michigan), he has since lived in Cleveland and Shanghai, and since 2004 has called Brooklyn, New York home. Recent distinctions include winning the 2006 Eastern Trombone Workshop's National Jazz Competition in Washington, D.C., the 2005 "Antti Rissanen International Jazz Trombone Competition" in Helsinke, Finland, the International Trombone Association's jazz trombone competition in 2002, the Detroit International Jazz Festival's Most Outstanding College Soloist award for 2001, and Downbeat Magazine's jazz composition competition in 1997. He was also in the finals of the Thelonious Monk Jazz competition in 2003. As both a sideman and a leader, his performing, composing, and arranging can be heard on numerous recordings and in a wide variety of musical styles (see discography). In New York, he is a busy freelance musician, and performs regularly with the Mingus Bands, the Dave Binney Big Band, the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, Ochun, Cumbiamba, Spoke, and his own quintet. With these and other bands, he has traveled to perform or teach in concerts and festivals all over the world.
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Over the past decade, an earnest desire to share the truly international music of jazz with wider and wider audiences has found him as an advisor and M.C. for jazz festivals in China, as a jazz educator on four continents, and as a host on Shanghai's recently launched jazz station, Soulfire Radio. Over the past decade he has introduced more than a dozen musicians to the quickly growing jazz scene in China who have gone to live there for some period of time; many of them still reside in China today. In addition, he has been involved with growing frequency in teaching and and performing in South and Central America, in such countries as Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Panama. Within the last year alone his music has brought him to Russia, Poland, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, China, and Korea.
Some of the musicians he feels honored to have performed or recorded with include: The Saturday Night Live band, The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and Mingus Orchestra, The Dave Holland Big Band, T.S. Monk, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Slide Hampton and the World of Trombones, The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, The Drifters, Nnena Freelon, Billy Hart, Marcus Belgrave, Cui Jian, Dave Binney, Michael Mossman, Robin Eubanks, Conrad Herwig, Dave Kikoski, Monday Michiru, Alex Sipiagin, Gene Jackson, Jeff Tain Watts, Bill Lee, Ralph Bowen, Jonathan Blake, Frankie Negron, Peter Dominguez, John Fedchock, Leslie Gore, Terry Gibbs, Wendell Logan, Ernie Krivda, Nils Landgren, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Sam Moore (Sam and Dave), Dick Contino, Dennis Mackrel, Tito Nieves, Hugh Ragin, Adalberto Santiago, Yomo Toro, Greg Bandy, Donald Walden, and Dan Wall.
Andy Hunter holds a M.M. in Jazz from Rutgers university, a B.Mus. from Oberlin Conservatory, and is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. He also holds a B.A. in Chinese from Oberlin College.
For a current performance schedule, please check the Andy Hunter myspace page by clicking here.
For concerts, clinics, or other inquiries, please email booking@hunterandy.com
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other press materials:
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| mp3 music samples
| bio in japanese
| bio in chinese (coming soon!)
| press clips (pdf) (coming soon!)