Snarky Puppy

Snarky Puppy live recording from their show on April 29, 2017 at The Sugar Club in Dublin, Ireland.

FROM MICHAEL LEAGUE:

A last-minute show in the cozy Sugar Club added after Vicar Street sold out. Board mix with room mics (before our recording rig came in), but the sound is good. The band really stretches each tune. Larnell opens with a lyrical, poly-rhythmic drum intro to Flood. Justin takes the first solo on Moog. ML intros Whitecap with mod-delay harmonics. It’s Bill’s first day with the clavinet and he takes it advantage of it while Maz solos on flugelhorn. Semente gets a Fender Rhodes solo from Bill. Bullock takes a tenor solo on an extended version of Palermo. Grown Folks is funky. Bass solo and lots of rhythmic interaction with drums and percussion before McQueen takes it out on guitar. Marcelo takes a pandeiro intro on Tio Macaco and duets with Larnell to close it. Bill brings Ready Wednesday in with an ostinato. Justin solos on Prophet. Lucy Woodward joins for the encore of Nina Simone’s Be My Husband. Maz trades his trumpet in for a vocal mic. Fun, elastic gig in a small room.

SET LIST:

1. Flood

2. Whitecap

3. Semente

4. Palermo

5. Grown Folks

6. Ready Wednesday

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7. Be My Husband*

BAND MEMBERS:

Chris Bullock - tenor sax

Bob Reynolds - tenor sax

Mike “Maz” Maher - trumpet, flugelhorn, and vocals

Justin Stanton - trumpet and keyboards

Bill Laurance - keyboards

Chris McQueen - guitar

Michael League - bass

Larnell Lewis - drums

Marcelo Woloski - percussion

Special Guest:

*Lucy Woodward - vocals

SOUND CREW:

Mike Harrison - sound (front of house)

Matt Recchia - sound (monitors)

Nic Hard - engineering and mixing