Photo: Ned RadinskyCharlie Hunter Quartet February 27, 2009 The Oriental TheaterBetter Than: Hunting through your receipts for itemized deductibles for your tax check. Which is what I should have been doing. Over the past few decades, Charlie Hunter has become an icon among bass players, guitarists and rhythm gurus for his ability to sculpt a groove that reaches beyond genre lines. At the Oriental on Friday night, he created a story with an obvious arc, a true beginning, middle and end. Most
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While Charlie Hunter has visited these parts many times with his trio, he usually plays bigger venues like the Bluebird and the Boulder Theater. What makes this pair of dates tonight and tomorrow night with the Ron Miles Group so special is that they're playing at the very intimate Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge (930 Lincoln Street). It's rare opportunity to see the eight-string guitarist up close and a chance to hear him play with Miles, one of Denver's finest trumpeters, and keyboardist Er
