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Amkeni
''Amkeni'' is an album by Burundian singer-songwriter Bukuru Celestin and the jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released in 2013. It is the first of two cooperative albums by Snarky Puppy and other performers that were recorded at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, Virginia in 2013, with the second being Family Dinner – Volume 1. Track listing All song lyrics by Bukuru Celestin and all arrangements by Michael League; all music composed as noted. Personnel ''Source'' *Bukuru Celestin, vocals *Ephrazie Niyonzima, vocals *Elvanie Niyibigira, vocals *Furaha Ndayishimiyi, vocals *Roanoke International Choir, backing vocals on tracks 3, 4, 5 Snarky Puppy: *Michael League – electric guitar, baritone guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, electric bass guitar, Moog bass & keyboards *Bob Lanzetti – electric guitar *Cory Henry – Hammond B3 organ & Fender Rhodes *Mike Maher – trumper & flugelhorn *Chris Bullock – tenor saxophone, flute & clarinet *Nate Werth – percus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GroundUP (album)
''GroundUP'' (stylised ''groundUP'') is an album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released in 2012. The album was recorded live at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn, New York, in front of a studio audience. Track listing Personnel ''Source:'' *Michael League – bass guitar, keybass *Andy Hunter – trombone *Jay Jennings – trumpet, flugelhorn *Mike Maher – trumpet, flugelhorn *Chris Bullock – tenor saxophone *Bill Laurance – keyboards *Cory Henry – keyboards *Shaun Martin – keyboards *Justin Stanton – keyboards, trumpet *Mark Lettieri Mark Lettieri (born c. 1984) is an American guitarist, composer and producer. He is a member of the jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy, funk band The Fearless Flyers, and also performs with his quartet, the Mark Lettieri Group. His background spans ... – electric guitar *Bob Lanzetti – electric guitar, baritone guitar *Chris McQueen – electric guitar, baritone guitar *Nate Werth – percussion *Keita Ogawa – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snarky Puppy
Snarky Puppy is an American instrumental band led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won four Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalists, League described Snarky Puppy as "a pop band that improvises a lot, without vocals". History The band was formed as a 10-piece group by Michael League in Denton, Texas, after his second year at the University of North Texas, in 2004, “Because I was so bad,” he claimed, “I didn't place into any of the school ensembles. So Snarky Puppy was my way of getting to play.” The group has grown into an international super-band made up of "...a wide-ranging assemblage of musicians known affectionately as 'The Fam'." In more than 17 years since its founding, about 40 players have performed in "The Fam" on guitar, bass, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, strings, drums, and percussion, but six of the 10 members on the first studio album ''The Only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Dinner – Volume 1
''Family Dinner – Volume 1'' is an album by the American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released in 2013. On January 26, 2014, Snarky Puppy and Lalah Hathaway won a Grammy Award in the Best R&B Performance category for their rendition of the Brenda Russell song "Something". The album was recorded and filmed in the Shaftman Performance Hall at Jefferson Center in Roanoke, Virginia in March 2013. The intent was to draw attention to the Jefferson Center's non-profit arts organization. A portion of sales supports the Music Lab at Jefferson Center. Track listing DVD bonus tracks ''(On the DVD set, Track #8 on the LP is the first track on the second disc.)'' Personnel Snarky Puppy *Michael League – bass guitar, keyboard bass, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar *Mike Maher – trumpet, flugelhorn *Jay Jennings – trumpet, flugelhorn *Chris Bullock – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet *Bob Lanzetti – electric, acoustic and baritone guitars *Mark Lettieri – e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Laurance
Bill Laurance (born 2 April 1981) is an English composer, producer, and multi-instrumental musician. Laurance is a member of jazz fusion and funk band Snarky Puppy, as well as founder and CEO of London-based record label Flint Music. Biography Bill Laurance was born on 2 April 1981 and raised in North London, England. As a child he attended William Tyndale primary school, during which he began learning piano and playing with his school band. At age 9 Laurance performed on organ during a school trip to London's renowned live-music venue Union Chapel, a locale he would later again perform at as an adult during the recording of his fourth studio album ''Live at Union Chapel''. Having been trained on ragtime and swing, Laurance first began playing jazz at the age of 14 when he became the resident performer for a small restaurant in the Soho district on the West End of London. As an adult Laurance attended and graduated from the University of Leeds, studying classical music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke ( ) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 100,011, making it the 8th most populous city in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the largest city in Virginia west of Richmond. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. Roanoke is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a 2020 population of 315,251. It is composed of the independent cities of Roanoke and Salem, and Botetourt, Craig, Franklin, and Roanoke counties. Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of Southwest Virginia and portions of Southern West Virginia. History Timeline * 1835 - Town of Gainesborough incorporated. * 1838 - Roanoke County created. * 1852 - Big Lick Depot built near Gainesborough; Virginia & Tennessee Railroad begins operating. * 1865 - April: Big Lick settlement sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ropeadope Records
Ropeadope Records is an American record label known for recordings in a variety of genres including jazz, hip hop, gospel, and electronic music. The label, now led by Louis Marks, was founded in 1999 by Andy HurwitzAndy Hurwitz"Ropeadope carves identity out of eclectic mix" ''Chicago Sun-Times'', November 12, 2004. in New York City and later moved to Philadelphia. In January 2014, Ropeadope artists Snarky Puppy and Lalah Hathaway were awarded the Grammy for Best R&B Performance. Roster & Releases Current and former artists: * Adam Smale * Alison Wedding * Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra * Joey Arkenstat * Ben Arnold * Benevento/Russo Duo * Bodega * Bullfrog * Brainbheats * Cabinet * Frank Catalano * Carlon * The Campbell Brothers * Consider the Source * Critters Buggin * Hal Crook * Darnell Little * The Detroit Experiment * DJ Klock * DJ Logic * Dirty Dozen Brass Band * fDeluxe * Mike Gordon * Great Peacock * The Harlem Experiment * Taku Hirano * Charlie Hunter * HUW * Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael League
Michael League (born April 24, 1984) is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the bandleader of New York-based instrumental band Snarky Puppy and the international music ensemble Bokanté. He also founded the band Forq with keyboardist Henry Hey, and is also an owner and founder of the record label GroundUP Music. League has won four Grammy Awards. Early life League was born in California on April 24, 1984.https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/michael_kellyrea_league_born_1984_16396955 He had an attraction to music from an early age and began playing guitar at 13 years old. He started playing bass at age 17, when he was requested to do so in his senior high school jazz band. He was raised Catholic. League went on to study jazz at the University of North Texas, then spent three years playing in Dallas's Gospel and R&B scene under the unofficial mentorship of keyboardist Bernard Wright. There he performed with gospel artists like Walter Hawkins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital cities are Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Great Lakes Twa, Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent Kingdom of Burundi, kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a German colony. After the First World War and German Revolution of 1918–19, Germany's defeat, the League of Nations "mandated" the territory to Belgium. After the Secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cory Henry
Cory Alexander Henry (born February 27, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, organist, and record producer. A former member of Snarky Puppy, Henry launched his solo artist career in 2018 with ''Art of Love'', his first independent release. On October 30, 2020, he released his sophomore full-length project called ''Something to Say'' which included Marc E. Bassy written track "No Guns" . That same year he released ''Art of Love Live'' and ''Christmas With You'' both under Culture Collective management and records. Henry was selected by Quincy Jones to headline his curated ''Soundtrack of America'' series opening of The Shed in NYC. On August 5, 2021, Beats Electronics premiered a commercial featuring athlete Sha'Carri Richardson featuring the track "Run to Glory" which was co-produced and written by Cory Henry, Kanye West and Dr. Dre. Henry was later credited as a producer and composer for the song " 24" from West's tenth studio album ''Donda''. On September 6, 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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