Black Diamond - Chant (2019)

Hunter Diamond is a saxophonist and creative musician living and performing in Chicago, IL. Through his compositions and improvisations, he maintains a consistent presence in the local creative music community. Recent appearances as a leader and sideman, respectively, at the Chicago Jazz Festival and Hyde Park Jazz Festival have solidified Hunter’s current status as a woodwind artist.

Hunter is currently in post production of the newest Black Diamond recording, captured live at the Whistler in Logan Square during a month long composition residency. “Chant” will be released on Shifting Paradigm records in early 2019. Also in production is the debut recording from the Diamond/Gillan duo (with drummer Lucas Gillan), due out in 2019.

Hunter currently performs with four groups of his own: Black Diamond (co-led with saxophonist Artie Black), The Herbsaint Band, the Diamond/Gillan Duo (with drummer Lucas Gillan), and Strange Frontiers: sonifying the poetry of his father Eric Diamond. For more information on these, please visit the Active Projects page.

Hunter can also be seen performing with Matt Ulery's Pollinator, Matt Ulery’s Loom/Large, Morry Sochat & The Special 20’s, Justin Boyd's Stereo Genius, and The Union.

In 2017, Hunter was selected as a from a city-wide pool of applicants for the Luminarts Foundation’s jazz improvisation competition. After performing for a panel of judges including the late Willie Pickens, Hunter was chosen as one of five recipients of the Luminarts Jazz Fellowship. With this initial award and continued grant support, the Luminarts Foundation made possible many of Hunter’s artistic goals, including a west-coast tour with Black Diamond in the spring of 2017.

In addition to an active performance and teaching schedule, Hunter is a producer at Elastic Arts Foundation and a membership committee member at Experimental Sound Studio.

Tracklist:

01. Tihai
02. Maybe
03. Chant
04. Henrylle
05. Aerosonic
06. Oh Bee