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Saturday Spin 4:060:00/4:06
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Biff 4:030:00/4:03
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For Roy 3:440:00/3:44
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You Gotta Be 4:220:00/4:22
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Take Me Home 3:140:00/3:14
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Togo 4:320:00/4:32
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Silent Night 3:210:00/3:21
“When feeling and technique come together it’s like Swan Lake. Huntertones, y’all are like ballerinas!”
- Audiotree
“Honest, genuine, skillfully executed music without limitations that is uplifting and cannot be quantified.”
- Jon Batiste
“Soulful, tasty and groovy. I dare you not to dance or be in a good mood during and after listening to this beautiful music”
- Lionel Loueke
“Music and community at the highest level!”
- Louis Cato
Loved and admired the world over, Huntertones captivates with a connective energy like no other. Both in the pocket and outside the box, their horns-of-plenty happenings consistently turn heads and grab ears.
The seeds for Huntertones were first planted in Columbus, Ohio, where saxophonist Dan White, trumpeter/sousaphone player Jon Lampley and trombonist/beatboxer Chris Ott bonded over broad-minded musical tastes. Forming a horns-and-rhythm outlet, they found an incubator for their outsized ambitions in now-legendary house party gigs on Hunter Avenue.
Moving to Brooklyn in 2014, they formalized their partnership as Huntertones and started making waves. A self-titled EP, released in 2015, established the band’s pliant brand of riffing and rhythmizing; 2016’s Huntertones Live documented the magic draw of their concerts; and an emerging YouTube channel showcased deft arranging and performing chops through new compositions and mind-blowing cover mashups.
Crisscrossing the globe during a series of U.S. State Department tours led to 2018’s Passport—a worldly statement that 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 endeavors, Huntertones’ horn section began to establish itself as a collaborative entity. With a burgeoning reputation on the scene and appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, longstanding connections were formed with soul purveyors Lawrence, indie-pop favorite Lake Street Dive, multi-hyphenate marvel Louis Cato, jazz greats Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter, and Vulfpeck’s Cory Wong.
Continuing to forge new frontiers as a complete unit, Huntertones tracked 2023’s Engine Co. live in a single room, ushering the music into the world through videos highlighting close-quarter magic. For 2024’s Motionation, the group raised the bar by using the studio as a springboard for creation.
With the arrival of 2026’s Transmission, Huntertones reaches new heights. Playing on the power of communication and the beauty in polar opposites, and offering magnetic guest appearances from both Rachael Price and Kurt Elling, this album showcases a sophisticated, groove-friendly atmosphere. Another bold step forward, Transmission perfectly reflects Huntertones’ boundary-breaking aesthetic