''Family Dinner – Volume 2'' is an album by American
jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric gui ...
group
Snarky Puppy
Snarky Puppy is an American jazz fusion 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 five Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalis ...
that was released on February 12, 2016.
Track listing
All songs arranged by Michael League.
Bonus DVD and digital download tracks
Personnel
* Michael League – bass guitar, ukulele bass, Moog bass, & vocals
* Jay Jennings – trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
* Mike Maher – trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
* Chris Bullock – tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute, vocals
* Cory Henry – keyboards, vocals
*
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.
Biogr ...
– keyboards, vocals
* Shaun Martin – keyboards, vocals
* Justin Stanton – keyboards, trumpet, vocals
* Bob Lanzetti – guitars, vocals
* Mark Lettieri – guitars, vocals
* Chris McQueen – guitars, vocals
*
Robert Searight – drums, vocals
* Larnell Lewis – drums, percussion, vocals
* Nate Werth – percussion, vocals
* Marcelo Woloski – percussion, vocals
* Rachella Searight – vocals
* Candy West – vocals
* Peaches West – vocals
Guests
* Ed Lee – sousaphone
* Carlos Malta – pife, bass flute, alto flute, flute, & soprano sax
*
Jeff Coffin
Jeff Stanley Coffin (born August 5, 1965) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator. He is a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he performed from 1997 until 2010. In July 2008, Coffin ...
– tenor sax, alto flute
*
Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier (born 2 August 1994) is a British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and educator. His music incorporates a combination of jazz and elements from other musical genres, and often features extensive use of reharmo ...
– vocals, piano, harmonizer
* Michelle Willis – pump organ & vocals
*
Charlie Hunter
Charlie Hunter (born May 23, 1967) is an American guitarist, composer, producer and bandleader. First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter plays custom-made seven- and eight-string guitars on which he simultaneously plays bass line ...
– guitar
*
David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelic music, psych ...
– vocals, acoustic guitar
* Roger Tallroth (
Väsen
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) – parlor guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
*
Louis Cole (
Knower) – drums
* Olov Johansson (Väsen) – nyckelharpa
* Bernardo Aguiar – pandeiro, percussion
* André Ferrari (Väsen) – percussion
* Carolina Araoz – vocals
*
Genevieve Artadi (
Knower) – vocals
*
Susana Baca
Susana Esther Baca de la Colina (; born 24 May 1944) is a prominent Peruvian singer-songwriter, school teacher, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and three-time Latin Grammy Award winner. She has been a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian ...
– vocals
* Amos Gohi Baraon – vocals
* Aminata Dante – vocals
*
Salif Keita
Salif Keïta () (born 25 August 1949) is a Malian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa". He is a member of the Keita royal family of Mali.
Early life
Salif Keita was born a traditional prince in the village of Djolib ...
– vocals
* Bah Kouyate-Kone – vocals
*
Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula ( Douglas; born 23 April 1986) is a British singer. A native of Birmingham, England, Mvula gained experience as a member or leader of a cappella, jazz/ neo-soul and gospel groups and choirs. She was classically trained. In 2012, sh ...
– vocals
*
Becca Stevens – vocals, acoustic guitar, charango
* Chris Turner – vocals
Nola International
* Sam Williams – trombone
*
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He has also written two operas and more than 80 film and television scores. Blanchard has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Original Score for ''B ...
– trumpet
* Khris Royal – alto saxophone
* John Gros – organ
* Brian Coogan – piano, vocals
* Ivan Neville – clavinet, vocals
* Big D Perkins – electric guitar
* Donald Ramsey – bass guitar
*
Jamison Ross – drums
* Terence Higgins – drums
* Mike Dillon – percussion
*
Jason Marsalis – percussion
* Nigel Hall – vocals
Charts
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Family Dinner - Volume 2
2016 albums
Snarky Puppy albums
GroundUPmusic albums
Sequel albums