{"id":76849,"date":"2018-05-29T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/76849\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:02:23","slug":"snarky-puppy-live-leaf-spring-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/76849\/","title":{"rendered":"Snarky Puppy LIVE @ LEAF Spring 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AO79kJtLIX8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nProduced by Independent Arts and Music Asheville<br \/>\nFind LEAF festival videos and more at www.iamavl.com<\/p>\n<p>After a decade of relentless touring and recording in all but complete obscurity, the Texas-bred\/New York-based quasi-collective suddenly found itself held up by the press and public as one of the major figures in the jazz world. But as the category names for two Grammy awards would indicate (Best R&#038;B Performance 2014 and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in 2016 and 2017), Snarky Puppy isn\u2019t exactly a jazz band. It\u2019s not a fusion band, and it\u2019s definitely not a jam band. It\u2019s probably best to take Nate Chinen of the New York Times\u2019 advice, as stated in an online discussion about the group, to \u201ctake them for what they are, rather than judge them for what they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snarky Puppy is a collective of sorts with as many as 25 members in regular rotation. They each maintain busy schedules as sidemen (with such artists as Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, and D\u2019Angelo), producers (for Kirk Franklin, David Crosby, and Salif Ke\u00efta), and solo artists (many of whom are on the band\u2019s indy label, GroundUP Music). At its core, the band represents the convergence of both black and white American music culture with various accents from around the world. Japan, Argentina, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico all have representation in the group\u2019s membership. But more than the cultural diversity of the individual players, the defining characteristic of Snarky Puppy\u2019s music is the joy of performing together in the perpetual push to grow creatively.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed at:<br \/>\n46th LEAF Festival<br \/>\nLEAF Community Arts<br \/>\nMay 12, 2018<br \/>\nwww.theLEAF.org<br \/>\nIamAVL Crew:<br \/>\nJosh Blake<br \/>\nScott Reese<br \/>\nShane Peters<br \/>\nGuy Newton<br \/>\nBen Mulkey<br \/>\nAdam MacMillian<br \/>\nEdited By Guy Newton and Ben Mulkey<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Snarky Puppy at http:\/\/www.snarkypuppy.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by Independent Arts and Music Asheville Find LEAF festival videos and more at www.iamavl.com After a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":76851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[14216,10825,88375,88380,88379,39031,88368,88369,54386,27930,88367,88377,88372,88370,88366,67,68,88382,555,88373,23074,88374,88376,28431,88381,3262,23995,6642,88371,88378,13393,23054],"class_list":{"0":"post-76849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-band","9":"tag-best","10":"tag-black-mountain","11":"tag-brain-and-booty","12":"tag-culture-vulture","13":"tag-festival","14":"tag-free-livestream","15":"tag-full-set","16":"tag-grammy-awards","17":"tag-guitar","18":"tag-guttermonk-fortunate-tiger","19":"tag-headliner","20":"tag-hq-audio","21":"tag-iamasheville","22":"tag-iamavl-asheville-music-beer-city-live-show-club-live-stream-best-show-explore-asheville-studio","23":"tag-japan","24":"tag-japan-news","25":"tag-java-jazz","26":"tag-jazz","27":"tag-justin-stanton","28":"tag-keita-ogawa","29":"tag-lake-eden","30":"tag-late-night","31":"tag-leaf","32":"tag-lingus","33":"tag-live","34":"tag-michael-league","35":"tag-new","36":"tag-pro-shot","37":"tag-snarky","38":"tag-tour","39":"tag-23054"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}