Singer Songwriter Reacts to Lingus by Snarky Puppy.

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Pomade Jam

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@drai Ай бұрын

I wish I could listen to this song for the first time again

@PomadeJam Ай бұрын

Right? The closest I can come to that is playing it for other people.

@3willyd 3 ай бұрын

Eventhough I've heard this many many times its so refreshing when someone who's reacting to this actually listens to the whole piece instead of stoppig and commenting in the middle.

@PomadeJam 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@Incognito-vc9wj Ай бұрын

Amen.

@JohnLouisCruciTushingham 2 ай бұрын

My favourite thing, somehow beating the insane musicianship, the stories behind these sessions (Larnell filling in last minute etc), the musical choices (the timbre of that brass section is so, so sublime), beating *all* of that is the genuine joy you can see throughout the video. The cheeky smiles between players, the audience, Shaun Martin (rest in peace) giving up and joining the audience midway through *that* solo and just mobbing him as soon as the performance is done, it's just so joyous, so virtuosic, it's the purest example of humanity at it's absolute best that I might ever see in my lifetime and it brings me even more joy to see people watching it and smiling at the small moments too, it's just so wonderful.

@PomadeJam 2 ай бұрын

That is an excellent point. I totally agree.

@dbasstij512 5 ай бұрын

Larnell Lewis, the drummer, was a last minute fill-in. He learned the music on the plane to the session.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

amazing

@matto9734 3 ай бұрын

He was a last fill in but he is also a long time member of the collective...

@JohnLouisCruciTushingham 2 ай бұрын

@@matto9734 He is *now*, he wasn't at the time

@spdcrzy 4 ай бұрын

Oh BOY was it fun to watch a pair of experienced, highly educated musicians geek out about this song! 😊😊 This entire album was composed, arranged, rehearsed, engineered, recorded, and mixed in five days. It is one of THE best jazz fusion albums of all time in my opinion. When Mark Lettieri began playing his solo, all I could hear was South Indian classical music. Straight back to my childhood. And then Cory comes on... absolute bliss. As for the mix: what you heard is what the audience heard. Mixed and mastered and recorded live. You can hear it. There is a TINY bit of room sound with the applause.

@PomadeJam 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! What an amazing band and performance.

@semanticscribe 5 ай бұрын

it's refreshing to see someone who actually knows what they're talking about doing a reaction; well done!

@dipi71 Ай бұрын

When I was a teenager in the 1980s I used to listen to bands like Toto and Mezzoforte because they felt like great studio musicians let loose. Snarky Puppy feels the exact same way almost 40 years later. Subbed! Edited to add: Weather Report, as soon as you mentioned it at 25:45. Cheers!

@PomadeJam Ай бұрын

Great comparison!

@olvinjanoisin2255 5 күн бұрын

This is one of the best of the dozens and dozens reaction videos for this song. The alternative takes of the same sessions emphasize how the stars aligned perfectly on this particular take and how unique, improvised and creative the solo really is.

@spiderbass65 5 ай бұрын

I love that in the middle of that awesome keyboard part, Larnell does a little nod to Chick Corea’s Spain.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

that's very cool

@Bobbias 3 ай бұрын

You nailed the Snarky Puppy sound when you described it as jazz trained studio musicians unleashed. And the keyboard solo... That is a legendary solo. There are already musicians who if you asked them, they will cite that solo as being an important part of their misical maturation.

@PomadeJam 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@Trapper50cal 5 ай бұрын

The piano stabs matching Larnell's beat under Cory's solo are just amazing...so tight it seems like part of the same instrument.

@jabehauber 2 ай бұрын

This session was recorded over two days, two sessions each day, so 4 takes. This was the session picked for the album, which apparently was completely different - from Cory's solo perspective - than the other three takes. Cory didn't want this one on the album because he felt it was too "out", but the rest of the band thought, 'What? Are you crazy? That is the best stuff we have ever heard!" So Cory was out-voted. The engineers stated that they set all the levels to unity, let the band do their own dynamics, and did a little bit of balancing mixing post. They did minimal preparation for the session. Some of the writing was done on site. This was basically organically grown live.

@PomadeJam Ай бұрын

Wow!

@homiefromfl 5 ай бұрын

For this recording, their usual band drummer Sput couldn't fly to the Netherlands where this was recorded. The band leader called Larnell Lewis to see if he was available and down to join them. He flew out last minute, and on the flight, learned a few of the songs he was to play for the recording, and he was already familiar of a few others. For a couple of days before they were able to get a drummer on sight, the band practiced the songs with the other percussionist keeping time. There were I think 3 of 4 days of recording. They made a few recordings of each or most songs. This song has at least two other versions of Cory Henry's keyboard solo (which can be found on youtube). Also, apparently, Corey Henry would've stepped in to play drums had Larnell not been able to join them. This would've been a hell of a loss in terms of the keyboard solo! The band leader and main composer is Michael League, the bassist. As far as I've learned, the way he composed the songs was mostly teaching the band where breaks were, where changes were, the timings, etc., and pretty much left each section to create their own piece within the music, and allowing each section of the band to make of the structure what they wanted, without stepping on any other section. It's a marvelous achievement to see how cohesive all the parts of the band can be within such a "chaotic" piece like this, without having the music written for them. Also, if I remember correctly, none of the band members had any written music in front of them. The only ones who did, was the small string section that was brought on locally for a few of the other songs. They played these songs from memory. It's a phenomenal thing, this band. I highly recommend the album from where this song is from, "We Like It Here".

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

wow!

@ei96byod 5 ай бұрын

Watch the DVD of behind the scenes of these sessions. It's available on KZbin now, and it is Bonkers, what they did. It's impressive.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@3willyd 3 ай бұрын

Eventhough ive heard this many many times its si refreshing when someone reacting to this actually listens instead of stoppig and commenting in the middle.

@PomadeJam 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@miltonpound763 4 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Shaun Martin. Such a legendary song.

@df3575 3 ай бұрын

🙏🏿🥺

@yesloow 5 ай бұрын

I love this track and I really enjoyed your reaction video to it. Really great to hear people talking through this track with some real insights and knowledge. The song is actually pretty simple in terms of its structure and chord progressions are pretty simple. The riff that goes through the entire second half of the song is almost like a blank canvas for the solo to create on top of. And yes, the Sax solo was totally Michael Brecker with that massive reverb sounding like it's coming from down an alleyway.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

thanks!

@HollowGolem 5 ай бұрын

Saw them live last year, and this was the encore. So much energy, so fresh. One of the best shows I've been to.

@jangelo2038 4 ай бұрын

In honor of Shaun Martin's passing it would be really cool to see you guys react to one of his originals. His presence in Snarky Puppy was massive and some songs of theirs will just never be the same without him. I think Yellow Jacket is a great song of his that shows some really lovely songwriting! If not just checking out Sleeper by snarky puppy, i would love to share in some thoughtful listening with you guys and your growing community.

@PomadeJam 4 ай бұрын

Will add that to the list, thanks so much!

@kleingrrmpf 4 ай бұрын

Holy fuck, Shaun died??? Man, this is such a great talent taken from us... ETA: Googled it: Stroke in '23 and in constant medical supervision since. Died Aug 3rd this year... :(

@jangelo2038 4 ай бұрын

@@kleingrrmpf I was so bummed. He was one of the reasons I switched from bass guitar to piano/keyboards. He’s so talented and filled the band with joy in all of their recordings together. It’s going to be so strange moving forward without that talk box moog ripping through snarky tracks

@brandonlbartlett 4 ай бұрын

Cant second this more highly. The Yellow jacket and Madiba are both epic! @PomadeJam

@joeyindahl2593 3 ай бұрын

I was very sad when I heard this news. He was still so young.

@hv1785 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights. Definitely one of the most knowledgeable reactions I’ve seen to this awesome song.

@jabehauber 2 ай бұрын

Part of the reason there were headphones on everyone was the issue of having the 70s analog keyboards (across 5 musicians) and having those put directly into the board due to the mix.

@stmserio 5 ай бұрын

You need to watch the DVD, these guys are the best, the layering is done with multiple guys on each instrument, ie, 4 keyboard players, 3 guitars, 4 horns, etc … they learned these songs in 3 days without a drummer … Larnel learned the songs the morning of starting the session …

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Wow! That's awesome!

@Aurora-cv5to 2 ай бұрын

I only made it to one live concert this year, and it was Snarky Puppy. They are incredible live. The venue was relatively small - 1600 seats total, with 3 levels. So - lots of musicians for the size of the audience.

@PomadeJam Ай бұрын

I am jealous.

@xondxonderson5784 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate the knowledgeable and thoughtful reaction. Well done.

@imuawarriors 5 ай бұрын

Corey Henry's solo is utterly fantastic - even the other keyboardist is like, "I'm out..."...

@Tonamel 5 ай бұрын

And that other keyboardist has 7 Grammys!

@MrReedSL 5 ай бұрын

Oh cool! I love that y'all are checking out more of this album, and this band.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

thanks!

@stevenmonte7397 5 ай бұрын

YES!!!!!!!!! We finally got it!

@stevenmonte7397 5 ай бұрын

I'm not a trained musician, but it amazes me that there's no sheet music in front of them.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Me too

@jeffreystringer 5 ай бұрын

they are known for no charts. ever.

@fobo8027 4 ай бұрын

It's mentioned in the "we like it here" documentary that they don't use sheet music. Only the strings player do. Time to step it up strings (I'm quoting one of the members obviously joking)

@mgbasinski 16 күн бұрын

Their process is that whoever writes a tune for the band creates demo (in Garage Band or Logic) with all the basic structure, but with all parts using the same sound (e.g Fender Rhodes); that is sent to the band and everyone is expected to learn all of it by ear - all the melodies, the structure, the bass line, the comping patterns. Then when they get together to put tunes together there is still a lot of band discussion about who plays which part (and on the road, they will often swap parts from night to night - tonight the guitars will play what the horns played last night on this tune etc). All played from memory in performance. see kzbin.info/www/bejne/a56xhKCuqbyeh68 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6HIXqWAg9Gdmqs for a lot more detail on that!

@mgbasinski 16 күн бұрын

Also, to your question "How different the final thing is from what we are about to see" - what you hear here *is* the final audio product, after all post-production. The actual question would be "how different is the monitor mix that everyone in the room is hearing during the recording from this final post-production audio that has been synced to the original video?"

@mgbasinski 16 күн бұрын

There were FOUR keyboard players on this session: Cory Henry (the soloist), Shaun Martin (the guy shaking his head at Cory's magic), and by the way, he was NOT playing that bass ostinato under the keys solo, that was being done by either Justin Stanton or Bill Laurence, and Mike League *is* also playing that ostinato on electric bass

@mgbasinski 16 күн бұрын

To the comments at the beginning about recording in the studio (layers/multiple sessions vs 2 pencil mikes, you get what you get, etc) Snarky IS doing something in between - this is why you see everyone with headphones. All tracks are recorded live with the audience (for the energy), no edits, no overdubs, but they DO do multiple takes - they typically rent a space for multiple nights, do 2 sets a night, so they get 4 or more takes of every tune and can pick the best one. BUT, the mics in the room are for the horns and drums / percussion only, all the guitars and keys are NOT heard in the room, but are captured in the recording process (and heard in the overall monitor feed mix over the headphones); THEN they can do a lot of post-production - EQ, mixing, they even do stuff like "re-amping" the guitars (take the recorded direct guitar and run though some other amp in post-production). There are some very interesting videos out there, e.g. this one which is an extended interview with their recording engineers about the sessions done in Dallas in 2022 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV6naKGVjq6YgZI

@garrygrasinski 4 ай бұрын

They learn all their songs by ear, usually in a very compressed time frame. Amazing group effort.

@PomadeJam 4 ай бұрын

Wow!

@thage7729 5 ай бұрын

The band was formed at North Texas University… a mecca for jazz musicians for decades. They now are based in Brooklyn. This was composed by Michael League, the bassist. It should be noted the drummer was a ‘stand-in’; the usual drummer couldn’t attend (passport trouble) and the drummer you see learned the pretty much entire album ON THE PLANE RIDE OVER. This was one of the last performances with the soloing keyboardist, because he left to form his own band. The keyboardist shaking his head and walking away during the solo was a multi-grammy winning musician in his own right. He had an awesome solo piece on this album (see “Sleeper”), which he realized would now be eclipsed by the solo he was hearing.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

thanks, great info!

@johncampbell756 4 ай бұрын

Shaun Martin, the keyboardist who took off his headphones during Corey's solo, passed Saturday 8/3/24. There were four keyboardists and I believe it was Bill Lawrence on piano. Matching the drums during the solo. They consider themsekves a collective. This one was composed by bassist and band leader Michael League. I don't think they did more than four takes on any track. The drummer arrived two hours before the first recording session. He did start playing bass, matching the bass drum during the solo. Soloist Corey Henry switched to the Hammond during the very end. There is a documentary on the making of this slbum and the 12 night, 12 show first Eurpoean tour. Most of the sings were written at the studio in the two weeks before recording.

@PomadeJam 4 ай бұрын

So sad we lost Shaun. Thanks so much for the comments, what a fascinating and mind blowing group.

@johncampbell756 4 ай бұрын

@PomadeJam Afrer this I watched a little mini-documentart on the band and a behind the scenes video by the sax player who didn't solo here, and both were crazy. The Bil Lawrence one was nuts about the making of Empire Central and how the band was learning four songs a day to record live within a week. The songs were all written days before. And he left town to perform during this.

@brandonlbartlett 4 ай бұрын

They do all tour, but usually 10 at a time while members at individual members cycle in and out while they meet their other obligations. Some of them aren't on the road as much. Michael League and Justin Stanton are always there. Cory Henry is now strictly a solo artist (the keyboard soloist), and sadly Shaun Martin (the guy reacting next to him on the b3) recently passed away.

@tdoom1354 5 ай бұрын

Would LOVE you guys react to Snarky Puppy song Kite from the same session! More calm but really encanting like a beautiful movie score!

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

@jesseray05 12 күн бұрын

3:21 ... I believe Larnell Lewis had 5 hours on a plane to learn not only this song but the whole set!

@LynneConnolly 2 ай бұрын

They're actually a loose collection of musicians who play together. They do long tours, and members drop in and out as the tour goes on. So you can actually go to more than one date and hear a different version of the tune each time. When I saw them last there were around 10 people on stage. There is a core group, but even they rotate out every so often. All the musicians are at the top of their game, so they just pick up, and Michael League orchestrates it all. Watch his signals to a musician that s/he is up next.

@PomadeJam Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@andrewyoung4973 5 ай бұрын

I think you might find snarky with the metropole orchestra interesting.the curtain is a unbelievable piece of music

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Will check that out

@murff625 19 күн бұрын

They learned this song as well as the whole set in about a week. The drummer didn't hear the song until the day before.

@davidmejia7908 5 ай бұрын

Here's a short doc on the recording of this album and the European tour of that year (kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6GYpHibrNiMhK8feature=shared). Also they typically do more than one take and choose the "best" one for the final album. Top notch musicians, there is also a doc covering the last album (Empire Central).

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, will check that out.

@willhoward261 3 ай бұрын

Micheal was playing bass guitar throughout the song with a effect pedal and one of the keyboard players was doubling the bassline.

@PomadeJam 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! That makes sense.

@henri4843 2 ай бұрын

😎💥

@OttawaChad Ай бұрын

Michael League the composer of the song is the bass player in the video

@PomadeJam Ай бұрын

👍

@jh4freedom2 5 ай бұрын

FYI: Snarky Puppy Awards And Honors 2013 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance, "Something" 2013 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2013 Best New Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2015 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Critic' Poll 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Sylva 2015 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll 2016 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll[ 2016 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2016 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Culcha Vulcha 2017 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2017 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll[ 2018 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll[ 2019 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll 2021 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2023 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Empire Central

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

whoa!

@kayh.4114 3 ай бұрын

RIP Schaun Martin!!!

@1byte4 19 күн бұрын

That "other" keyboard player, has 5 Grammy's.

@Eevee280-q7q 5 ай бұрын

Beard is looking awesome

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

thanks!

@d.s.6268 5 ай бұрын

Great reaction, but shame she looked away at the most impressive part - when the camera pulls away and you realize that Corey is playing the same solo in both hands on two different keyboards and it's not a "double octave" effect being applied ! Of all the amazing parts in this video, nothing amazes me more than that.

@PomadeJam 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, she looked away at times to do more concentrated listening. That is my favorite part of the video too, amazing player.

@jcappucino 5 ай бұрын

I agree because when its visual part of the great music it's the performance the interaction of the musicians that's different then when your only listening.

@CharlieGroh 3 ай бұрын

Didja see anyone reading? Pretty incredible just for the lack of it...especially the winds...this session was the album, I believe.

@mgbasinski 16 күн бұрын

@sanfordgfogg 3 ай бұрын

As the story goes, they all arrived in Europe to learn the songs by the band leader, Micheal League. Only 2 songs were known and about 4 days of rehearsal prior to recording. The kit drummer (Larnell Lewis) arrived day 1 of recording learning the songs on the flight over. The whole album was recorded as a live "silent" concert 3 times, and the best take of each song was selected. It's recorded and mixed lived. I liked how you put it, selective recording but not for the purpose of paintbrushing. Most of the songs on this album are worth a listen.

@PomadeJam 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. What a great band.

@tommaddox6718 3 ай бұрын

No sheet music at all. Everyone has headphones on, not just the band.

@mgbasinski 16 күн бұрын

For a look at how stuff like this is made see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6HIXqWAg9Gdmqs sax player Bob Reynolds on the making of the 2022 album Empire Central