Snarky Puppy, Esco Williams

Snarky Puppy is truly a different kind of musical animal. Their new album 'We Like It Here" went straight to no.1 internationally on the iTunes charts in March 2014. The once Texan, now New York-based quasi-collective has gone from the best-kept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music worldwide.

The band has always used live performance as its chief form of evangelism, and maintains a more intense tour schedule than almost any band in the idiom. Over the course of 2013, Snarky Puppy gave almost 200 performances and workshops on four continents, including North Sea Jazz, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz á Vienne, Blue Note Tokyo, and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

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