Hey hey! I’m back with some more reviews of the Snarky Puppy Immigrance concerts. On October 22, 2019 the Pups commenced the FINAL European leg of the tour in Oslo, Norway! The lineup at the Sentrum Scene featured a full horn section with Mike “Maz” Maher, Chris Bullock, Bob Reynolds,Continue Reading
Sixteen years ago – at the time of the Immigrance tour in 2019 – Michael League and his friends founded Snarky Puppy at the University of North Texas. On October 5, 2019, the Pups ended the final North American leg of the Immigrance tour at the Bomb Factory in Dallas,Continue Reading
Snarky Puppy always gets a positive reception in Florida, and this audience at the Plaza in Orlando is truly dynamite! Maybe it’s the scores of musicians and music lovers based in Florida…or maybe it’s the fact that Bob Reynolds and Jamison Ross are both from Jacksonville. Who knows? This showContinue Reading
While this Snarky Puppy concert clocks in at under 90 minutes, the quality of the band’s performance is exceptional. This was the band’s first time in Charleston, and they were ready to deliver a killer show at the Music Farm. This was also Jamison Ross’s first night as the touringContinue Reading
Earth to Bobby Sparks…earth to Bill Laurance…earth to Shaun Martin! Where are these dudes? Well, this is going to be a very different Snarky Puppy show. I watched the video of the full concert (thanks again to Jake!) and was amazed by how well the eight-man ensemble handled the absenceContinue Reading
If you’re a fan of the Immigrance album, this is the show for you! In this setlist, seven of the nine tunes are from that album…only two are from earlier records. Even with all of the new music, the audience is loud and the atmosphere is electric. Interestingly, half ofContinue Reading
Back in late 2019, I discovered a few Snarky Puppy concert videos on YouTube from our very own Jake Funkmayor. This was one of the first 2019 shows that I heard, and it is a very unique and entertaining show! As far as I know, “Big Ugly” was only performedContinue Reading
This is the early show at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada – aka Larnell Lewis’s hometown! The first thing that caught my attention was that three Snarky Puppy stalwarts are not in the lineup for this show. In addition to the absence of Mike “Maz” Maher (whoContinue Reading
In this bonus review, Snarky Puppy played to a festival crowd at the renowned Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium. It’s a fairly short set with only eight songs in under ninety minutes, but they still cover a lot of ground in that time. The solos are significantly shorter due toContinue Reading
After a well-received set at the Vienna Jazz Festival, Snarky Puppy continued on their tour throughout Europe. They stopped in Lviv, Ukraine for the first time and played a great show at the Leopolis Jazz Festival. This setlist draws on a wider variety of tunes from the Snarky Puppy catalog,Continue Reading