Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola - The Cars, Hank Williams, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington (2014)

Tracklist

01. Bye Bye Love
02. Candy O
03. Double Life
04. Good Times
05. Let's Go
06. Move It On Over
07. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
08. Cold Cold Heart
09. Ramblin' Man
10. You're Cheatin' Heart
11. Blue Pepper
12. Rockin' In Rhythm
13. Daydream
14. The Mooche
15. Mood Indigo
16. Ace In The Hole
17. Too Darn Hot
18. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
19. Miss Otis Regrets
20. Anything Goes

Country music and jazz are often cast as antithetical styles, but the truth is far more complicated. For Hunter and Amendola, a great song is simply a great song, and they find plenty of grist for improvisation in this set - originally released as 4 5-song EPs, which include Hank Williams classics like Cold Cold Heart, and Ramblin Man. They find fertile ground even further afield from typical jazz fare in the music of new wave rockers The Cars, digging into hits like Candy-O, and Let s Go. Also covered are Cole Porter and Duke Ellington classics interpreted only as Charlie and Scott can!

"The idea is to do these four [EPs] and see how people respond," Hunter says. "We started thinking why do we keep making 10-song CDs. I don t necessarily want to do 10 Hank Williams songs, but five can work well. As long as the song is good we can put it through the mill, like what we did with T.J. Kirk and the Bob Marley album I made."

Drums – Scott Amendola
Guitar – Charlie Hunter

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