Music Producer Reacts to Snarky Puppy Playing Lingus! 

I always wish Miles Davis could hear this track. Miles always had phenomenal bands. To me, Snarky Puppy carries Jazz to that next level. Cory's solo will be studied for years!

This is the album. They flew to Amsterdam(?) and immediately started writing. Drummer Sput couldn't make it, so Lennard was sent mp3s of the music without drums, which he learned on the flight over. He arrived two hours before the first recording session. They do up to four takes of each song with the best making the album. Corey Henry on the synth solo. 6 time Grammy winner Shawn Martin taking off his headphones during it. The vocoder is for the song Sleeper. The strings appear on two or three tracks. The entire album is fire with this as the closer. There is a 38 minute doc on the making of the album and associated 12 day/12 show European tour associated with this trip. Their first Eutopean tour. This song is written by band leader, bassist Michael League. Corey is a child prodigy. Look up him playing organ as a child.

The piano player in this tune, and a lot of Snarky's tunes, is Bill Laurance, the dude in the pink shirt with his back to the electric piano player that starts the tune, Justin Stanton. You can see him a bit better at 7:00. I say "in this tune" because they use a billion keyboards, between electric pianos, grand piano, clavinet, organ and several synths, and pretty much every tune has a different combination of them. Since recording this album, Cory Henry has left the band to focus on his solo band, Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles, and Bobby Sparks returned after almost a decade. When Cory was in the band, he'd usually play synths, organ and electric piano. In the current configuration, you'll usually see Justin Stanton on the electric piano, Bill Laurance on the electric or grand piano, Shaun Martin on the organ or the Moog + talkbox combo and Bobby Sparks on the organ or clavinet, with all of them playing different synths in different tunes. However, they'll often break the usual and you'll see other configurations like Shaun on the electric or grand piano, Bill on the clavinet or even Justin on the trumpet, because they're quite simply built different.

Yep this is the album. A seminal moment in my 60 years as a musician. I even watch reruns of the React videos!

It's always a pleasure to see Cory make some jaws drop with this insane solo. You might wanna try "Binky" or "Trinity" for your next reactions on Snarky Puppy.

Larnell learnt the scores on the plane, picked up at the airport (eventually) and straight into recording ... legend

This was recorded in Europe. The guy in the black shirt to the left of Larnell is the owner of the studio. They got there with songs unfinished and no drummer. Larnell arrived about two hours before they began recording. If I heard correctly, they announce a new recording on one of their social media accounts and you can pay something like $200 to sit in. Um....no brainer...

Was hanging with all these guys last weekend at Ground Up fest. They're all incredibly nice.

The Curtain for sure. It is the opening piece to a suite written and arranged by Michael League called SYLVA. Performed by SP and the Metropole Orkest. Stunning piece of music.

Larnell is FIRE!!!!! Cory KILLS IT! Top notch musicianship right here. If you haven't done What About Me? Do that next. Larnell is phenomenal on that track!

I comment this every time I see someone discover Snarky Puppy for the first time, but as a producer you'll REALLY appreciate this. The crazy part about this is the live mixing and engineering. Not one, but TWO Avid 6SL 64-channel consoles being mixed, engineered, AND RECORDED in real time for both the final album as well as the mix both the audience AND the band are hearing. So not only do the submixes for the musicians have to be perfect, but the overall mix for the audience has to both sound good on a final CD as well as in their headphones in the moment. Playing it on my (admittedly pretty goddamn good) Kali IN-8s and JBL LSR308s with a WS6-2 sub and having every instrument, every element, every chord, every kick have its own sonic layer that doesn't get muddied up by the mix is a true feat of sonic engineering - especially with RU-vid compression. Oh, Larnell learned basically the entire goddamn album (including this song) on the flight over to the Netherlands because Sput wasn't available as a drummer due to visa issues, Cory went absolutely unconscious on keys doing the same thing with both hands SIMULTANEOUSLY - that means opposite fingerings for left and right hands, the guy losing his mind (RIP) was a four-time Grammy winner at the time of recording this album over a decade ago, and yes, basically half this album is straight up world-class improv. Gospel, funk, soul, rock, jazz, fusion, R&B, experimental, prog - these guys can play everything.

There's a video on RU-vid of 4 year old Cory playing the organ like an adult!

I think you're the only reactor so far to pick up on Shaun Martin's "Goddamm!!" at the end there. Kudos. To see Shaun shine on the voicebox do react to Sleeper from the same session. It's also good live but I think this album/session is it's first outing. What Cory Henry has for keyboard chops, Shaun matches with feel on the voicebox/vocoder.

You should definitely get into Dirty Loops. Try "Work Shit Out" or just pick one. You'll be blown away.

Thank you so much! Very few people notice Bill Laurence matching Larnell on the piano. I, too, wish they had given him a little camera love. That's a hard part to play without losing focus. If you ever watch this again, he's the one in the peachy-orange shirt who sits down right before they start Cory's solo.

If you want to hear the Vocoder in action (played by multi Grammy-winning keyboard-player and composer Shaun Martin - the guy taking of his headphones during the solo), listen to "Sleeper" from the same session. It's fantastic!

more songs to react to :) ~Snarky Puppy-Outlier ~The Aristocrats-Bad Asteroid ~Snarky Puppy-The Curtain ~Tigran Hamasyan-Entertain Me ~The Aristocrats-Last Orders ~Snarky Puppy + Jacob Collier-Don’t You Know ~Joshua Milo-superhighway ~Snarky Puppy-Bling Bling ~Plini-Sunhead ~Snarky Puppy-Cliroy ~Footprint Project-Did I Get You Right ~Snarky Puppy-Anonymous ~Tigran Hamasyan-De-Dah ~Snarky Puppy-Bling Bling

I’ll just say this…watch all of ‘em… you’re welcome.

I would love to see interviews with the people in the room to see if they realized at the time how big this was going to turn out to be

This IS the studio version, so to compare solos, check out some live stuff. Cory Henry plays the solo totally different each time I've heard this song. He is currently my favorite keyboardist of all time. Love that moment that your mouth froze open, as Cory played fast riffs with both hands playing the same thing.

@10:26 - that's a 6 time grammy winner having his mind blown by Cory Henry

Your expression changes from 11:33-12:11 are hilarious!

As others have said, this IS the actual record.

The reason that one keyboard player shakes his head and walks away is because he (and his vocoder) are featured on another track in this album (“Sleeper”), which, apparently, was recorded before this track. Shawn thought he had the hottest track in the album … until Corey played this solo like a man possessed and Shawn’s subsequent reaction was his realization his solo was going to place a distant second behind this one. As far as other SP tracks, my recommendations would be “Don’t You Know”[featuring Jacob Collier] … or “Something”[feat. Lalah Hathaway], the latter being SP’s 1st grammy.

If you like vocals, you might want to check out SP with Lalah Hathaway doing Something from the album Family Dinner Vol. 1

Corey Henry's solo on this one reminds me of Chick Corea.😊

This is the original record.

This is the original recording. This is them recording the album. They played all the songs two nights in a row and kept the best of each song for the album. In some of the videos from this you will notice they have on different clothes.

Cory henry is this generations bernie worrell . Michael league the bass player is criminaly underrated as a director.

I just watched a guy discover the magnificence of Cory Henry in real time. Previously known as “this guy” to Mattie, he will never forget the name.

Matty - nice reaction! You see all details of this high quality magic- and I like it! (...the one I miss: nobody reads! live session! unreal perfect timning! ... on top it's (i beleve) 2nd take and everything is perect and so gooood!) Regarding your quastion about suggestion to react on other masterpiece from this bunch of wizards: my favorite: OUTLIER (Larnell let his jazz expirience made that sax solo from Bob... HUGE!)

There's a video of Cory Henry playing like that a 5 years old!

Also these guys have no need for metronomes..they have a percussionist filling that gap

The Keyboardplayer going insane is Shaun Martin. An 4-time Emmy award winner... so when someone like that goes apeshit ;D

Lingus reaction videos never get old, how long before we run out of people to react? Now go listen to Chris Potter do the solo, equally extraordinary.

I'm lost on the solo. Can someone tell me what's happening over there and why people are freaking over it?

Talking over the solo was not my first reaction.

Less talk

Wonderful music! - commentary spoiled with your multiple blasphemies.

Bruh.. any music producer calling a talkbox a vocoder loses my respect immediately....

Stop talking and breaking