Tom Hunter Quartet

Tom Hunter is a self-taught blues and jazz musician, who starts out his story with, “Well, I was born,” he says, laughing. After living in Minnesota for 20 years, as far as venues go, “I think I’ve played all of them,” Hunter says. After Hunter got out of the Navy, he made his start on the music scene in New York. “I started working with blues bands, playing the piano” alongside musicians like Bill Perry, Murali Coryell and Little Sammy Davis, he says. Eventually making his way to Minnesota, a place that he had played often while on tours, he found his solo voice. Starting out, Hunter jokes that a lot of his music was “heavy on the Italian restaurant’s greatest hits.”