KUVO Broadcast — Stafford Hunter & Freedom Quartet | June 18

KUVO celebrates Juneteenth with a live-streamed performance by Stafford Hunter and Freedom Quartet, from KUVO’s Bonfils-Stanton Performance Studio on all of KUVO’s channels on Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m.

Freedom Quartet was formulated to perform a suite written by Stafford during the height of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the multitude of injustices in America, by Americans to other Americans as a chain reaction that came to light at that time – a time that SHOULD live in infamy. Now, the quartet uses its chord-less, open sound to utilize harmonic freedom for the musicians to venture into. Expand and search: that will be our mission. It is an ever-evolving band compositionally and through improvisation. Stafford Hunter is a multi-Grammy nominated trombonist & seashells player (and sometimes vocalist). His recording and performance collaborations include Clark Terry, McCoy Tyner, Roy Hargrove, Amy Winehouse, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lenny Kravitz, Oliver Lake, Orrin Evans’ Captain Black big band, Steve Turre & Sanctified Shells, and Stafford was a 21-year member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Stafford has five CDs as a leader to date.

Joining trombonist / shellist Stafford Hunter will be Ike Spivak on saxophones, Seth Lewis on bass, and Harold Summey on drums.

Stafford Hunter and Freedom Quartet, live on KUVO, on the air, on the stream, on the app, and on KUVO YouTube and Twitch channels, Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m.!

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