I have a lot of exciting things happening at the moment, one in particular is my piano trio with Adam Fairhall (piano) and Seth Bennett (double bass), Fragments.  I started this group about four years ago as a workshop band to explore different approaches to integrating Free Improvisation and composition and the work we’ve done has been hugely exciting for me.  It feels like we are only at the beginning and there are still many more ideas that we are currently working on that are yet to make a public appearance.

Here is a short extract from our concert at the Manchester Jazz Festival, 2017.

We are really pleased to be releasing our first album this summer on Northern Contemporary, so keep a look out for that.

Here’s a full length video of my quartet’s set at last year’s Manchester Jazz Festival courtesy of Jazz North and the Northern Line scheme.

Ben Watte (tenor sax), Graham South (trumpet) and Stewart Wilson (double bass).

Johnny Hunter Quartet, Full Set mjf 2016 from jazznorth on Vimeo.