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Article: Interview

Michael League: Snarky Puppy's Jazz-Schooled, Grassroots Visionary

by Mike Jacobs
December 10, 2018

Bassist, composer, bandleader, sideman, producer, record label owner, festival head... These are some of the many hats Michael League has acquired since embarking on his musical odyssey at the University of North Texas with a “little" band named Snarky Puppy in 2003. With its Jazz-but-not-Jazz / Music for Brain and Booty ethos, multiple poll ...

Article: Live Review

North Sea Jazz 2018

by Phillip Woolever
September 3, 2018

North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands July 13-15, 2018 Amidst the cornucopia of summertime festivals, there sits a juggernaut. That's North Sea Jazz, where a dozen performance spaces named after rivers around the world offer a sound garden of global delights. The full-tilt feast flows gloriously during the second full weekend of July ...

Article: Live Review

Snarky Puppy al Roma Jazz Festival

by Mario Calvitti
July 26, 2018

Snarky Puppy Roma Jazz Festival 2018 Cavea Auditorium 07.07.2018 Uno dei fiori all'occhiello di questa nuova edizione estiva del Roma Jazz Festival è sicuramente il concerto degli Snarky Puppy, unica data italiana nel breve tour europeo. Fin dalla loro fondazione nel 2005, il gruppo (ma sarebbe meglio definirlo un collettivo, vista ...

Article: Live Review

FORQ at The World Cafe Live

by Mike Jacobs
August 18, 2017

FORQ The World Café Live Philadelphia PA July 31 2017 One can be well-versed in the two (whoops, now three) albums worth of music by FORQ, (and in the music from the other bands the individual members hail from) and still not be totally prepared for the impact of ...

Article: Album Review

Bokanté: Strange Circles

Read "Strange Circles" reviewed by Daniel Marx

by Daniel Marx
August 8, 2017

Due to Michael League's prolific body of work with his record label, GroundUp Music, he has his fingers in many pies, the latest of which is a new band, started by the Snarky Puppy guitarist/bassist/producer, called Bokanté. The word means “exchange" in Creole, the language of the band's vocalist Malika Tirolien, and the music is meant ...

Article: Live Review

Fano Jazz By The Sea 2017

by Libero Farnè
August 2, 2017

Fano Jazz by the Sea Fano Varie sedi 22-30.7.2017 Quest'anno c'era qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole, anzi sul mare di Fano. Una prima disorientante sfasatura, di natura visiva, rispetto al passato era costituita dall'assenza, sui programmi di sala e sul palco dei concerti, della storica immagine che riproduceva una ...

Article: Album Review

Snaggle: The Long Slog

Read "The Long Slog" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
January 11, 2017

In the art world, labeling oneself as “the next (fill in the blank)" or “(name of country)'s answer to (fill in the blank)" is a risky ploy that may reap short-term benefits in terms of quickly generating a fan base, but may actually be detrimental in terms of creative sustainability. The : Toronto-based jazz-funk- rock sextet ...

Article: Live Review

Snarky Puppy at the Electric Factory

by Asher Wolf
May 26, 2016

Snarky Puppy The Electric Factory Live From the Lot Festival Philadelphia, PA May 21st, 2016 As I sit in this Philadelphia train station trying to decipher the ambient jazz faintly trickling from the overhead speakers I am reminded of why we need more bands ...

Article: Lyrics

Snarky Puppy: la fusion del nuovo millennio

by Angelo Leonardi
January 11, 2016

"Abbiamo suonato a Flagstaff, Arizona, due o tre anni fa per una quindicina di persone -ricorda Michael League, leader di Snarky Puppy -E alla fine abbiamo scoperto che tutti erano venuti per il successivo karaoke. In pratica abbiamo fatto l'apertura al karaoke." Dopo la sorprendente vittoria di un Grammy Award nel gennaio 2014 ...

Article: Live Review

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015

by R.J. DeLuke
July 7, 2015

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY June 27-28, 2015 While jazz is closely associated with horns (even though there are few instruments now employed at some point across the genre) it was a couple of guitar slingers that helped light up the skies at Freihofer's ...