Award-wining band Snarky Puppy Roll has released a live-in-studio video version of their single “Pineapple.” The piece appears on Snarky Puppy’s new album, “Empire Central” (GroundUP Music).
The song’s co-writer and Snarky Puppy trumpet and flügelhorn player Mike “Maz” Maher indicates that the single is “an upbeat dance track with a groove smack dab in the middle of house and new jack swing. Blistering improvisations propel the tune forward without departing from the fun danceability of the song.”
Recorded over the course of eight nights in front of a live-in-studio audience at Dallas’ Deep Ellum Art Company, Empire Central consists of 16 all-new tracks heavily influenced by and paying homage to the city that gave birth to the group after they formed while studying in the fabled jazz program at the University of North Texas. The record also features the last recorded performance of 1980s funk pioneer and Snarky Puppy’s musical Godfather Bernard Wright, who passed away tragically at age 58 shortly after the Empire Central recording sessions.
(headline image: Snarky Puppy – Photo by Brian Friedman)