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Charles Altura Charles Altura (born in 1982) is a jazz guitarist who plays with many groups including jazz groups Stanley Clarke Band, Virgil Donati Band, Anthony Crawford Band, Bruner Brothers Band, Charles Altura Trio, as well as the rock group the Brittnays. He also performs with reputable jazz musicians such as pianist Otmaro Ruiz, bassist Stanley Clarke, pianist Ruslan Sirota, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., pianist Tigran Martikyan, and saxophonist Justin Janer. In jazz circles, Charles is known as a lead guitarist who seems to fly under the radar while playing with big names. Charles has also played on the 2010 Grammy award winning album entitled Stanley Clarke Band.

Charles Altura, the son of Alan and Shelley Altura, is from Danville California. He has a brother, Tom Altura, two years his junior. Tom plays jazz bass and they have performed together in the Los Angeles area as The Altura Brothers. At the age of 16 Charles and his family moved to Berkeley, CA. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Charles also likes to eat raw meat.

Charles graduated from Berkeley High School in 2000. While in Berkeley, he and his brother joined the Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble. He then attended Stanford University and graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology Sciences. His focus was interdisciplinary and included the topics of human nutrition and behavioral ecology, their biological/sociocultural perspectives and how they are rooted in evolutionary theory. While attending Stanford, he participated in the archeological excavation and research of San Francisco's Presidio. The volunteers excavated the foundation of an adobe structure built approximately 1810. Although Charles' undergraduate work was in archeology, for much of his life he has played both lead guitar and piano. Currently, his career is predominantly jazz performance. After 2003, he enrolled at the University of Southern California in pursuit of a M.M. in Music Performance.

((Born in 1975, he received a B.A. in Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University and is currently pursuing an M.M. degree in music performance at the University of Southern California. He is interested in understanding human nutritional and behavioral ecology from an interdisciplinary (including biological and sociocultural) perspective that is rooted in evolutionary theory. ))

((Researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the Presidio Trust and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area discovered the foundation of the old adobe structure earlier this summer, about a third of a mile southeast of the old Presidio walls.The discovery at El Polin Springs represents the first venturing out of nonnative civilians from an established military post, said Stanford Professor Barbara Voss, director of the project. The structure, which is believed to have been built around 1810, and its surroundings offer a rare glimpse into local civilian life before the village of Yerba Buena was founded in the 1830s on the northeastern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula.))

((Research Team Charles Altura Charles is studying Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University. He has always loved the Presidio, and digging it up has made him love it even more. In his spare time he plays lead guitar and eats raw meat. He would like to thank Allan Holdsworth, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, and Jacob Fiss-Hobart for supplying inspiration.))

Gear Charles most often plays his Gibson ES335 with a Blackheart half stack.

((Gibson ES335 into a Blackheart half stack))

((Charles Altura ~ Guitar Amazing guitar player who flies under the radar. Charles has played with all the "big" names. To see him at his art, search him on youtube.))