[1] Hurt was a member of Sherman Irby's quartet that played regularly at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City in the late 1990s.
[2] Gregory Tardy wrote a song after him, entitled "Mr. Hurt";[3] the pair played with Rashied Ali in 1999.
[4] In the 1990s, Hurt played on albums with Antonio Hart (Here I Stand),[5] Abbey Lincoln (Wholly Earth), and Russell Gunn.
[7][8] In a review of the album, James Lien of CMJ New Music Report called Hurt "one of the more adventurous young pianists to recently emerge on the New York scene.
"[9] Calvin Wilson of The Kansas City Star described the album as "at once boldly experimental and totally accessible.