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Both in the pocket and outside the box, Huntertones’ horns-of-plenty happenings offer an inimitable blend of jazz, funk, pop, soul, hip-hop, and R&B. The seeds for Huntertones were sown in Columbus, Ohio, where saxophonist Dan White, trumpeter/sousaphone player Jon Lampley and trombonist/beatboxer Chris Ott bonded over their broad-minded musical tastes.

Crisscrossing the globe and collaborating with musicians in West Africa, South America and Europe during a series of U.S. State Department tours led to 2018’s Passport—an intercontinental entry tapping into sounds and scenes from Zimbabwe, Togo, Egypt, and Ireland, among other locales.  Demonstrating their remarkable ability to expand and absorb at will, that stylistically diverse statement saw White, Lampley, Ott, and the band’s rhythmic core of guitarist Josh Hill, bassist Adam DeAscentis and drummer John Hubbell creating alongside a diverse cast of artists from around the world.

Concurrent to those many and varied full-group flights, Huntertones’ horn section began to establish itself as a collaborative entity all its own.  Still at the center of their universe, White, Lampley and Ott also began enhancing the sound of other singular acts.  With a burgeoning reputation on the scene and appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where Lampley performed nightly as a member of house band The Great Big Joy Machine.

Of Huntertones, Jazz and music superstar, Jon Batiste said, “Honest, genuine, skillfully executed music without limitations that is uplifting and cannot be quantified.”