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June 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Cables Rewired EP

Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra Cables Rewired EP Flint Music Limited Composer Bill Laurence – a member of the sprawling modern jazz-rock ensemble Snarky Puppy has, in recent years, really extended out as composer (and player) in his own right.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Laurance, Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra, Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Cables Rewired EP, Cables, Cables Rewired, Cables Rewired EP, Constance, Constance Rewired, EP, Flint Music Limited, Orchesrtral Rendition, Orchestral Version, Snarky Puppy, The Untold Orchestra, Untold Orchestra, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Laurance Trio: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Laurance Trio Live at Ronnie Scott’s Flint Music Bill Laurance’s rightful musical title might be Keyboard Wizard. A founder of the indie jazz-rock ensemble Snarky Puppy, he’s responsible for dizzying runs, weird and brilliant use of electronics and beneath all of that, the sensitivity and musicality of a pianist – so all the bells […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Bass, Bill Laurance, Bill Laurance Trio, Bill Laurance Trio: Live at Ronnie Scott’s, Drums, Flint Music, Jonathan Harvey, Live, Live at Ronnie Scott’s, Marjius Aleksa, Piano, Ronnie Scott's, Snarky Puppy, Trio, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 226 – Snarky Puppy, Wellington, 2019

Something clever happened here – Snarky Puppy sold a version of jazz to an audience of hipster-indie fans and boofheads (and some genuine jazzers too I guess…) and I wanted to know a bit more about that, having only heard some of their recordings and having missed their previous visits to the country. It blows me away they can sell so […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, April, Gig, Indie, Jazz, Live Gig, Musicianship, Opera House, Snarky Puppy, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 226, Stubs: # 226 – Snarky Puppy, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ghost-Note: Swagism

Ghost-Note  Swagism  ROPEADOPE  If Kamasi Washington is exploring the Albert Ayler/Coltrane connections in a modern landscape then Ghost-Note is doing something similar with templates created by Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock…which is to say on Swagism they hint at the late-80s/early-90s hip-hop influenced and inflected funk and R’n’B jams of those masters whilst also adhering to the types of grooves Hancock and Jones […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-Jazz, Album Review, Ghost-Note, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Kamasi Washington, Quincy Jones, Snarky Puppy, Swagism, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Fearless Flyers: The Fearless Flyers (ep)

The Fearless Flyers  The Fearless Flyers (ep)  Vulf Records  An off-shoot of Vulfpeck, The Fearless Flyers features guitarist Cory Wong and bassist Joe Dart along with friends of that band and collaborators Nate Smith (master session drummer) and Mark Lettieri (Snarky Puppy). The onus is on fun on this brief, fast and funky workout of an EP where “The Fearless Flyers” tear […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blake Mills, Cory Wong, Elizabeth Lea, EP, Joe Dart, Mark Lettieri, Sandra Crouch, Snarky Puppy, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Fearless Flyers, The Fearless Flyers (ep), The Fearless Flyers: The Fearless Flyers (ep), Vulfpeck, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Jazz Festival: 8-12 June 2016

Following the earlier announcement of headliners, The Wayne Shorter Quartet, the Wellington Jazz Festival’s full line-up for 2016 has now been revealed. Further headliners include vocalist Karrin Allyson with the Tom Warrington Trio and NZSM Big Band,  the father of Ethiopian jazz – Mulatu Astatke with Black Jesus Experience, the dynamic Snarky Puppy and one […]
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