Charlie Hunter — American Musician born on May 23, 1967,

Charlie Hunter is an American guitarist, composer and bandleader... (wikipedia)

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.
I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?