Earthwise welcomes Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola Duo

3700 Middlefield Road,Palo Alto CA 94303

03 December, 2021

Description

Charlie Hunter jazz duo guitar with Scott Amendola drums Charlie Hunter plays a unique style of jazz guitar, seeming to play the bass part of a song with two fingers of one hand and three fingers of another, while also playing the lead part on the same guitar. He uses custom built guitars, for a while by Novak of Santa Cruz, with a fanned fret or parabolic: the bass strings on his guitar go lower than than those or a normal guitar, enabling him to achieve this technique or effect. More than any other musician, Charlie Hunter encouraged Earthwise Productions in Palo Alto. In September of 1995, roughly a year in, he was the first to sell out the old Cubberley auditorium for an Earthwise show (we cheated: it was a rare double bill of his CHT Trio and the three guitar medley known as TJ Kirk, formerly James T. Kirk, playing Monk tunes cut with James Brown and Rahsaan Kirk). Charlie proceeded to return as a quartet, a quintet, and Pound for Pound. He told me to keep producing these shows, because its a listening room, and people go there for the music, not the nightclub experience. (Although in theory there could be Palo Altans who approved the $40M bond initiative to build The Mitch and have yet to attend an event there, so it cuts both ways). Scott Amendola I likely met on that September, 1995 event. He has played four other Earthwise shows just this year. (And returns in December and January, with different co-led projects). The Mitch (which includes a library, a teen center, a courtyard, ADA's Cafe and some pickleball courts) opened in 2015 but will not officially be on until Charlie says so. Earthwise Productions, PO Box 60786, Palo Alto, CA 94306 [email protected], (650) 305-0701 Concert company since 1994.