A formula for stardom that's not. Relentless touring and do-it-yourself recording and distribution made them a kind of big band version of Medeski Martin & Wood. Maz - “Still my favorite Snarky tune, and this recording sounds great! For audiences seeking a “fusion” that is truly fun to listen to, new music that has the joie de vivre of “Birdland”, this is the music to answer the call. Jazz album: “We Like It Here” by Snarky Puppy, released in 2014 on Ropeadope. On January 26, 2014, Snarky Puppy and vocalist Lalah Hathaway won a Grammy Award in the Best R&B Performance category for their rendition of the Brenda Russell song "Something" from Family Dinner – Volume 1. ! This guy is something else! I dig its roots guitars and slow-build to an alt-country, T-Bone-Burnetty climax, but its presence on the record is one-off peculiar. Add to My Collection. From the moment Snarky Puppy played its first overseas show to a sold-out London crowd, they felt at home in Europe. All rights reserved.PopMatters is wholly independent, women-owned and operated. In stock. We Like It Here is an album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released on February 25, 2014. The film DVD also contains over an hour of interviews, behind the scenes tour footage in Europe, and alternate solo takes from the recording sessions. In stock. All those musicians were supremely talented, but they did not always make great music. Now Snarky Puppy is emerging more clearly into the mainstream with the release of Family Dinner Volume Two, which is both on their own label (GroundUp) and distributed through Universal Music. Beyond the playing, these bands were early incarnations of what every “band geek” of the '70s dreamed of: chops in the (attempted) service of coolness. Snarky Puppy We Like It Here. Recorded and filmed live with a studio audience over 4 nights in the Netherlands, We Like It Here captures the band at its most explorative point in its career, in both composition and improvisation. However, here’s a less flattering comparison that Chinen mentions but doesn’t unpack in the New York Times. The machine, that is Snarky Puppy, is a collective of musicians from the Dallas and New York area that are musically inclined on a whole other level. The band always carries a percussionist (Nate Werth, Marcelo Woloski, or Keita Ogawa), the leader is your electric bass player, and several guitarists are adding funk, texture, and rock-anthem material on most tracks. Less nerdy.” To be sure, listening to the music bears this out. Helpful. Which is to say, it reflects its generation and education, as if an iTunes library on shuffle needed a house band. Is it “art” or merely very amazing commerce, commerce that is not at all easy to pull off? The larger question lingers: does the band have a vision for what it wants to sound like? Crazy chops and a solid pocket. Though the group is still somewhat underground, the group’s popularity is catching fire. From the moment Snarky Puppy played its first overseas show to a sold-out London crowd, they felt at home in Europe. But the whole thing never would’ve happened without the wonderful people at Live Here Now and The Royal Albert Hall, and the real MVPs of the night, Snarky Puppy’s unbelievable crew,(Rosanna Freedman, TJ Abbonizio, Matt Recchia, Clare McEnerny, Nic Hard, Francis Clegg, Mason Davis, and Michael Harrison. Recorded and filmed live with a studio audience over 4 nights in the Netherlands, 'We Like It Here' captures the band at its most explorative point … This, as I will discuss below, is both breathtaking and bland. There are dozens more examples of bands that come out of “jazz” training and playing that are, rhythmically at least, really rock or soul bands just with better chops. This is not to argue that Snarky Puppy doesn’t create music that is also subtle or imaginative. “What About Me?” gets the crowd singing along to an instrumental melody as well: its polyrhythmic groove speeding up expertly on cue, the drum fills sounding positively prog-rockish before a guitar solo rocks for a deeply complex five minutes of fusion-y speed. Following the release of the Snarky Puppy Crew playlist last week, w... e asked some of our band members to pull together a favorites list of their own. From Family Dinner Volume One you have a track like “Too Hot to Last”, featuring Lucy Woodward, a singer-songwriter who is Puppy-esque in her diversity of ability and influence. They merely play instruments very well and most started out with jazz training. Maybe not even a musical life. Which is why no one ran out to buy recordings by the NBC or CBS “Orchestras”. Who cares if it meets some 'jazz' standard of innovation or invention some critic sets forth? Directed by Andy Laviolette. Snarky Puppy may not be a group that can be easily defined, but We Like It Here is a landmark album in contemporary jazz. for a band that can get young people this pumped up about jazz. An enormous achievement considering the recordings covered four days: from Monday until Thursday with two shows a night, all being recorded for the upcoming Snarky Puppy dvd. The track you imagine will get the most attention is a collaboration with folk-rock icon David Crosby that is all pastel organ tones, guitar subtlety, and a hinting swell of wind instruments, but just barely. The album We Like It Here was performed and recorded live in October 2013 at the artistic compound Kytopia in Utrecht, Netherlands. After EDM (electronic dance music) skewed how I listen to music, Snarky Puppy was brought to my attention and wiped my slate clean. The audiences skew young, and all these bands are celebrated for a nerdish combination of technical skill and musical wit. If you don’t know Snarky Puppy, then you’re in a shrinking minority. The track "Lingus" includes a solo on the synthesizer performed by Cory Henry. Here is the great dilemma with Snarky Puppy, its glory and its Achilles Heel at once. They're not nearly as bankrupt as the Maynard Ferguson band of the '70s, but they're not nearly as original and brilliant as Return to Forever or (especially) Weather Report at their best. Now wouldn’t that be a song you'd want to hear? Snarky Puppy review – a perfect balance between improv and groove Scala, London A spirited evening of horn-hollering soul hooks, floor-shaking beats and punchy improv Groove and control… It was music that only a jazz guy could play, but reached for rock beats, soul tunes, and funk grooves. SNARKY PUPPY. When the tenor player revs up for a wild improvised solo, well, he sounds like Michael Brecker on steroids -- and the crowd goes wild. What a way to set the tone for the album by letting the first song on the album be…”Thing of Gold”. Snarky Puppy - Shofukan From the live DVD We Like It Here. Sent from and sold by Amazon. The music hits you on the backside before it flits with any other part of your body. AllMusic Rating. Snarky Puppy, from the start, took a different path, defying both genre conventions and business conventions. On the very next track, “Turned Away” featuring the fabulous guitarist Tony Scherr, the Puppy is playing a funky New Orleans slow drag, sounding nothing at all like they did on “Too Hot” and nothing much like the band tears up tracks like “Lingus” or “What About Me?". Like its predecessor, it features a series of guests, particularly singers across the musical spectrum, who are given a funky new setting in a Puppy arrangement, all recorded live before a small audience. The opening bars of “Shofukan” (also from We Like It Here) get cheers in Buenos Aires, and the cinematic world music groove eventually becomes a singalong, with plentiful synth accompaniment, followed by a clattering percussion jam. In previous albums songs like Binky and Whitecap etc did a really good job of integrating everything they are and were striving to be, but We Like It Here is pretty much a full album of bangers that totally encapsulates what is awesome about this band. By comparison, Snarky Puppy is a roller coaster: thrilling, dazzling, fun, but never daring or free of the tracks over which the music flows. From the moment Snarky Puppy played its first overseas show to a sold-out London crowd, they felt at home in Europe. Drummers like Robert “Sput” Searight and Jamison Ross drive Snarky Puppy from the ground up -- both with core backgrounds in gospel music and then astonishing careers in hip hop and funk (Searight) and jazz (Ross). Released 25 February 2014. In Nate Chinen’s recent article in The New York Times (5 February 2016), League credits experience playing church services outside Dallas (and being mentored by Bernard Wright) with moving the band "from white jazz-school stuff to something groovier, funkier, more communicative with the audience. Recorded and filmed live with a studio audience over 4 nights in the Netherlands, 'We Like It Here' captures the band at its most explorative point in its career, in both composition and improvisation. We couldn’t ask for a better one! Henry’s current work beyond Snarky Puppy is roots-driven soul music, searing feeling with a backbeat. Not that Snarky Puppy is jazz, exactly. "Within the last several years, since clawing its way out of obscurity, Snarky Puppy has become the most visible of a crop of young bands building on a foundation of funk, rock, hip-hop and electronic music, typically with streamlined internal combustion and an overlay of vaulting, anthemic melody.” True, and he compares them to Christian Scott and GoGo Penguin, both good examples of how “jazz” these days has a much more authentic and organic association with groove music then Zawinul or Ferguson ever could have. We Like It Here changed my life. I must say, delivery is everything. Snarky Puppy, ultimately, is not a funk band or a jazz band, big or medium. Their music spans multiple genres, integrating elements of jazz, funk, fusion, R&B, soul, and rock to create a purely musical experience unlike any other band that I am aware of. Recorded and filmed live with a studio audience over 4 nights in the Netherlands, 'We Like It Here' captures the band at its most explorative point … You're listening to a snippet of "Flood" from our show at Barrowlands in Glasglow, UK on November 16, 2019 - one of eight live cuts on Mike 'Maz' Maher's playlist. Snarky Puppy has also been compared to the latter-day jam bands, groove bands like Galactic and Umphrey’s McGee and, certainly in their business model, Medeski Martin & Wood. In addition to all of that, we're also asking Snarky Puppy fans to curate your very own “Best of SP Live” playlist. Editors’ Notes Snarky Puppy’s ninth album—the last of five for Ropeadope Records before they launched their own GroundUP imprint—takes a long and winding path before ending up at “Lingus,” easily one of the Grammy-winning band’s landmark achievements and the representative cut par excellence. 2 CDs. It scored hits: Weather Report had “Birdland” in 1979 and Ferguson hit No. Hey, man, I can hear Puppy fans thinking already, not all music has to break new ground. Snarky Puppy We Like It Here . Awesome tune (15/4!?! Steve Ley is a professional drummer, teacher, writer and Sheet Music Team Director for Online Drummer. They do many things very, very well and play with a seamless professionalism. I first noticed Snarky Puppy when my music students, faced with a bit of downtime in the band room, were pulling up videos of the band’s recording sessions on a big screen. Cory Henry is a Hammond B3 organ specialist, and he's often the most imaginative soloist. Snarky Puppy – We Like It Here. It is a shining display of skill, musicianship, and wordless self-expression that even Snarky Puppy have not yet been able to top. Copyright © 2021 I’m rooting for Snarky Puppy to keep thrilling us, keep the coaster rolling while also, once in a while, veering off the tracks. Recorded and filmed live with a studio audience over 4 nights in the Netherlands, 'We Like It Here' captures the band at its most explorative point … Snarky Puppy has put together an 8-track album, We like It Here, and it already being widely accepted. This item: We Like It Here by Snarky Puppy Audio CD £19.22. Why do audiences respond with such enthusiasm when they hear the band? Family Dinner Volume Two opens with a beautiful and then driving arrangement of Becca Stevens’s “I Asked” that merges folk elements from the Swedish band Vasen to a metrically complex synth-bass funk that never overwhelms the singer’s subtle vocal. The song “Lingus” by the group Snarky Puppy has been recorded by the group many times, but my favorite take is from their ninth album We Like it Here.Snarky Puppy is a very special musical group made up of some of the best jazz fusion instrumentalists in the world. His band the Funk Apostles probably says it all. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz The Puppy can claim that, too. Add to Custom List. Corea and Zawinul were great musicians and they were leading astonishing bands, but the impulse to blow the audience away eventually ate away at the bands’ nuance and feeling. Snarky Puppy is rather like an old-fashioned talk show band: an updated NBC Orchestra led by Doc Severinsen for Carson’s Tonight Show, a more harmonically lush CBS Orchestra led by Paul Schaffer for Late Show with David Letterman. Though JazzTimes readers awarded them the “Best Big Band” accolade in 2015, they are first and foremost a tight-as-a-drum rhythm section. Genres: Jazz Fusion, Progressive Big Band. Medeski Martin & Wood gives you the groove, but they also take you for a safari in a jungle of sound. If you want to know what's selling out sizable theaters all across the world, the answer is in the plethora of live recordings Snarky Puppy is selling on its website, where crowds in Europe and South America all know the bluesy horn melody to “Lingus”, from 2014’s We Like It Here, with its stuttering keyboard part, its melodic bass line, its catchy guitar hook doubled by the trumpets, and a decent set of harmonies to inspire truly dashing jazz playing a la Corea -- just before the Corea-esque synth lines that trade fours with electronically processed trumpet. The band has found a way to combine hustle and resourcefulness into success. We Like It Here. 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'We Will Always Love You', Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, and Jack DeJohnette Are 'Live at Ronnie Scott's'. In stock. From the moment Snarky Puppy played its first overseas show to a sold-out London crowd, they felt at home in Europe. We Like It Here is just all of that stuff pretty seamlessly melded. Return to Forever was fast and precise; Weather Report was an ingenious amalgamation of styles achieved by players who were nearly or exactly the best on their instruments at the time; and the Ferguson bands were stocked with hot-shot young players emerging from the first generation of “jazz schools” of the ‘70s such as Berklee and North Texas State. When you hear the word jazz, Snarky Puppy isn't the sound that comes to your mind, and that everyone is sure... Apart for soloing like crazy mother***ers and being a "Big Band" their don't seem a jazz group, well maybe I'm wrong, but they sound way too diferent of a jazz combo, but believe me they are one. Snarky Puppy wavers in that zone. When what’s called for is atmospheric Americana guitar, yessss, there it is, gorgeously delivered -- and your heart string, well, she's been tugged a bit. Do you play on the whole album, “We Like It Here”? These bands to which Snarky Puppy refers (intentionally or otherwise) jolted listeners of an earlier era. I hope you keep jammin’ with Snarky Puppy… 3 people found this helpful. One thing Snarky Puppy definitely has is consistency. Beyond the music, Snarky Puppy may be even more impressive. But they were bands that were asked to be ready on any given night to play any style, and play it brilliantly and on a dime. So, every time you hear Snarky Puppy, you’re in for a snaking, electrifying synthesizer solo with harmonic movement, something that wouldn’t have been out of place on a '70s Return to Forever album. From the moment Snarky Puppy played its first overseas show to a sold-out London crowd, they felt at home in Europe. If you like some amplified Chick Corea, then the Puppy probably also reminds you of Weather Report, the jazz fusion era’s most orchestral band, which traded in funk grooves, synth-y expression, and also the world music grooves that similarly pleases the Puppy. They play and dazzle but they don’t explore. © 1999-2020 PopMatters.com. On the last night, after the last session, Drummerszone was very fortunate to meet up with the lovely, humble and incredible drummer that Larnell Lewis is. "I know you must love Snarky Puppy," a drummer said to me as I entered the room and saw the band move from a percussion jam into a sizzling synth … Snarky Puppy has worked hard and in innovative ways to get heard. La maestria sia in senso artistico che in quello puramente tecnico di questo incredibile ensemble statunitense, sono al livello massimo in questo We Like It Here. User Ratings (0) Your Rating. Recorded and filmed live (free of overdubs) from October 7-10 at Kytopia Studios in Utrecht, the Netherlands, for GroundUP Music. So for the next few days, a vote is taking place in the Facebook group Snarky Puppy Forum. Further, the Discogs entry you're looking at doesn't include the logo for the label Ropeadope. Very similar to the U.S. release of 'We Like It Here', but this version has the barcode at the bottom right on the rear of the Digipak (on the U.S. release the barcode is below middle). His playing with Lalah Hathaway on “Something” is the song’s critical connection, hip and soulful at once, harmonically interesting and heart-tugging. The record industry had essentially collapsed and having a degree from UNT might get you gigs, but it wasn’t going to propel anyone into an easy life. They don’t much “jam” even when they improvise. We Like It Here 2014 . After all, these guys are not pop stars. 28 on the pop charts when he released “Gonna Fly Now” (the Rocky theme) in 1977. This time taking a break from using their usual drummer Sput Searight, Snarky Puppy uses Larnell Lewis, the relative newcomer from Toronto, Ontario. Sylva by Snarky Puppy Audio CD £9.49. Bill Laurance released a 2014 album on GroundUp that moves across vast territory, but “The Good Things” will remind many of Brad Mehldau. A collection of songs from the modern jazz band Snarky Puppy. Snarky Puppy is one of the most unlikely bands to make a splash in the hip-hop and saccharine-sweet pop saturated music scene of 2014. That's a totally fair question. The dvd sessions But compared to these bands, the Puppy is rather tame and predictable. While in the other space wrestling with some students trying to play a basic blues, I starting hearing “Woooo!” and “Oh, no!” through the wall, as the teenagers had the glorious experience of being blown away by dazzling technique. Snarky Puppy also has the advantage of being of its moment in a particular way that Chinen identified in his article. While we’re dwelling on The Me Decade, let’s also note that Snarky Puppy -- with its emphasis on trumpets in the horn section (usually carrying two to just one reed player) -- will remind older listeners of the brassier big bands of that time: Maynard Ferguson’s glitzy band being the most prominent and the most likely to engage with pop material (see 1974’s Chameleon, with a cover of Hancock but also McCartney’s “Jet” and Stevie’s “Livin’ for the City”). Immigrance by Snarky Puppy Audio CD £10.99. Featured peformers: Michael League (electric bass guitar, keyboard bass, producer), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes, keyboards, piano), Justin Stanton (fender rhodes, keyboards, trumpet), Cory Henry (keyboards, Hammond organ), Shaun Martin (moog synthesizer, keyboards), Bob … I realize with the last album, groundUP, the album art there was black white and yellow (Gold). Sent from and sold by Amazon. Mixed at Boulin Bowl Studios in Dallas, Texas. "I know you must love Snarky Puppy," a drummer said to me as I entered the room and saw the band move from a percussion jam into a sizzling synth solo or from a soulful vocal into a tricky brass passage that was part James Brown and part Maynard Ferguson. The musicians are just fabulous. I thought then as I think now, Hallelujah! The crowd drinks deeply from the band’s well of musicianship and invention and showy virtuosity. More importantly, for me, are the keyboards that drive Snarky Puppy on any given night. La loro musica va in tutte le direzioni, senza fermarsi al jazz o la funky, ma facendo coesistere influenze diverse in modo fluido e, … Killer solo!! Superb musicianship, but that wouldn't mean anything if the tunes weren't great, which they are. You relied on them to execute imitations of other things, but not to deliver new ideas. So what is it? What you see (and hear!) We are moving to WordPress and a new host, but we really need your help to fund the move and further development. At the end of the night, you wind up out of breath but right where you started. That the drummer, Larnell Lewis learned these pieces with only 2 hours of rehearsal is frankly, hard to believe. These comparisons, I want to note, are a form of high praise. Snarky Puppy & GroundUP Music. I like the interaction between you and the drummer! We Like It Here, an Album by Snarky Puppy. They were triumphs of virtuosity, first and foremost. Those were astonishing bands made of the finest players. Just one detailed example. PopMatters have been informed by our current technology provider that we have to move off their service. Recorded and filmed live with a studio audience over 4 nights in the Netherlands, We Like It Here captures the band at its most explorative point in its career, in both composition and improvisation. Sent from and sold by Amazon. Toronto drummer Larnell Lewis proved himself an invaluable pinch-hitter when, mere days before recording We Like It Here live in Europe, the band’s usual drummer encountered passport issues. Formed in Texas 12 years ago by exceptional young musicians largely pulled from the famous University of North Texas jazz program, the band is a collective that is orchestrated by bassist Michael League. Today they are based in New York and have won their first Grammy, but they are marked as much by how they have achieved success -- and how hard they have hustled along the way -- as by the music. Bandleader Michael League and his family of groundbreaking musicians have been making music for… Packaged in a four panel Digipak. Coming out of music school in the early '00s clearly posed challenges. The Ferguson bands, no matter how beloved they were by the band geeks of that era, were committing artistic adultery, if you will. The Puppy is not a rock band or a pop band, either. Snarky Puppy – Lingus (We Like It Here) Snarky Puppy – Lingus (We Like It Here) By Steve Ley Drum Videos , Funk, Fusion, Jazz ... Steve Ley. Musically, the band is sleek but post-modern, perfectly integrated but also a stitched-together Frankenstein’s monster of styles. The track "Lingus" made me rethink everything I thought I knew about music. From the moment Snarky Puppy played its first overseas show to a sold-out London crowd, they felt at home in Europe. The film also contains over an hour of interviews, behind the … Which brings us back to those jazz fusion bands and the Maynard Ferguson band from the '70s. Winning the 2014 Best R&B Performance Grammy for “Something” featuring singer Lalah Hathaway (from Family Dinner Volume One) and the recent Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for its last record, Sylvia, recorded with the Metropole Orkest from the Netherlands made them more than just an underground phenomenon. 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