# CD review: Snarky Puppy – Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2020: Video, Photos, CD cover …

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/03/16/cd-review-snarky-puppy-live-at-the-royal-albert-hall-2020-video-photos-cd-cover/
- Published: 2020-03-16T13:47:00+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**The “Brooklyn-Based jazz funk fusion collective” Snarky Puppy have developed an
unwavering mass of fans young and old. As the 12-piece band poured onto the stage
on Thursday night, this 5,000 strong fan base whooped and hollered excitedly. **

As the room sat in darkness, a solo guitar started with a beautifully simple mournful
melody, soon joined one-by-one by the rest of the band. Before long, an epic feast
for the senses had built up. Each composition moved through this mellow simplicity
to raucous cacophony again and again, and though it seemed formulaic at times, each
groove was different and each soloist brought something new to the music.

![](https://ljazzn.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/a_90345.jpg?w=639&h=426&fit=639%2C426&
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Snarky Puppy. (Photo courtesy of Royal Albert Hall)

These guys have mastered the art of the “show” – a true stadium style gig with the
spectacle and atmosphere of a rock concert, but the discerning ears of a jazz crowd.
Each musician has at least one piece where their solo is a feature. **Mike Maher**
played some particularly inventive and lyrical solos on trumpet and flugelhorn. 
Individually, the band are geniuses on their own instruments, but they also embrace
effects, especially in the keyboards, featuring many different synthesizers and 
a Talk Box, on which **Shaun Martin** had the crowd completely and totally hooked
on _Sleeper_. Rather than headbanging and crowd surfing, this serious audience was
entrusted with an exercise of clapping a 3-over-4 syncopated rhythm while the band
played a song called _Xavi _from their newest album _Immigrance. _

This gig was a special one as it was being recorded as a live album. Leader and 
bassist **Michael League **announced near the end that there was a “Silver Bullet”
parked round the back of the concert hall that had been mixing and producing the
music in real time and that guests could queue up and receive the first digital 
mix of the gig 15 minutes after the show ended.

All in all, Snarky Puppy never seem to disappoint. They have contributed a lot to
the way jazz has changed and grown in the last 10 years and they keep coming up 
with new and innovative ideas to add to their appeal.

![](https://ljazzn.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/a_90539.jpg?w=639&h=426&fit=639%2C426&
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Snarky Puppy. (Photo courtesy of Royal Albert Hall)

**Tracks CD1**
 1-1. Even US (Live) (8:12) 1-2. Intelligent Design (Live) (9:17)
1-3. While We’re Young (Live) (7:33) 1-4. Alma (Live) (8:36) 1-5. Bad Kids To The
Back (Live) (8:22) 1-6. Bigly Strictness (Live) (8:22)

[**Download CD1▼**](https://turb.to/weqdxn5hsgkt.html)

**Tracks CD2**
 2-1. Tarova (Live) (6:15) 2-2. Xavi (Live) (9:32) 2-3. Chonks (Live)(
9:14) 2-4. Sleeper (Live) (11:45) 2-5. Shofukan (Live) (12:07)

[**Download CD2▼**](https://turb.to/qe10aweqxrst.html)

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