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Snarky Puppy
Latest release:
Somni – recorded with the Metropole Orkest on GroundUp Music, released 21 November 2025 (click here for press release)
• Snarky Puppy's last four releases have all debuted at #1 on iTunes in US, Canada, UK and New Zealand and in top 5 in Germany, France and Netherlands
• This band is on the pulse of the youth jazz movement worldwide. Their sheet music is part of music school curriculum in high schools and universities in the US and Canada
“Somni embodies Snarky Puppy’s ethos: curiosity, craftsmanship and the courage to let joy sound sophisticated.”
- Jazziz
“Few instrumental ensembles have made as much of a popular impact over the past two decades as Snarky Puppy”
- Jazzwise
“A rhythmic tour-de-force while retaining their quirky-yet-funky USP”
- Mojo
“Their dance-friendly music has made them one of the most successful instrumental bands in jazz or rock”
- The Times
"Snarky Puppy’s Michael League on the Joyfully Eclectic Group’s Latest Evolution" (Rolling Stone interview)
"Jazz-meets-funk mini orchestra Snarky Puppy has unveiled a new video for “Bad Kids to the Back,” a crisp, strutting new track written by trumpeter-keyboardist Justin Stanton, and slated for the group’s upcoming LP, Immigrance"
“Snarky Puppy can seemingly adapt to any and every genre.”
“One of the more versatile groups on the planet right now.”
- Rolling Stone
“Snarky Puppy might be today’s most popular band whose audience wouldn’t be fazed by a nearly 10-minute-long lead single with no words…Crunchy guitar slices out a truncated phrase in conversation with an insistent snare drum, and flutes and trumpets drape a humid cloud cover overhead.”
“Maybe you didn’t notice, but this is Snarky Puppy’s world, and the rest of us only live in it."
“A barnstorming, groove-centric instrumental act with a rabid fan base.”
- The New York Times
“With their clever mix of jazz, funk, rock, and world music, they’ve reached a wide audience while remaining a moving target.”
- WNYC New Sounds
“Big, rich and funky.”
- NPR Music
“Thinking person’s feel-good music.”
- Downbeat
• Currently have over 353,000 monthly listeners on Spotify
• Currently have over 606,000 followers on Instagram and 504,000 followers on Facebook
Winners of 5 Grammy Awards:
• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for the album Empire Central 2023
• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for the album Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2020
• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for the album Culcha Vulcha 2017
• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for the album Sylva with Metropole Orkest 2016
• Best R&B Performance for the song "Something" with Lalah Hathaway 2014
• Snarky Puppy is the DownBeat Readers Poll Winner for Favorite Jazz Group 2017
"Maybe you didn’t notice, but this is Snarky Puppy’s world, and the rest of us only live in it.” - The New York Times
Snarky Puppy, the five times Grammy® winning collective, “has always been a band that prioritizes the sound of the music,” says bandleader and bassist Michael League. Displaying a wide array of influences including funk, rhythm & blues, hard rock, classic soul, modern gospel, new tech, fusion and jazz, Snarky Puppy isn’t exactly a jazz band, it’s not a fusion band and it’s definitely not a jam band. It’s probably best to take Nate Chinen of the New York Times’ advice, as stated in an online discussion about the group, to “take them for what they are, rather than judge them for what they’re not.”
“Our soundscape has expanded dramatically over the years”, says League. “When the band started, we were jazzier, brainy and music oriented. Moving into the Dallas scene we became groovier, more emotional, deeper in a sense. We focused more on communicating a clear message, understandable to a listener without dumbing things down”.
In January 2025 the band collaborated once more with the Metropole Orkest – the Netherlands-based hybrid ensemble renowned for fusing jazz, classical, and popular music on a symphonic scale. Captured live over three nights (January 17–19, 2025) in Utrecht, the project reunites the two groups a decade after their first joint effort, Sylva — an orchestral suite released in 2015 that earned the GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album the following year. The result of this collaboration - Somni - was released November 21, 2025 via GroundUP Music.
“It’s by far the most ambitious project we’ve ever done … and it was one of the smoothest records we’ve ever made,” he says. “Every individual team just absolutely did their job with so much care and love — from the camera operators to our production team.” That spirit was reflected in the room. “The instant feedback was the warmest we’ve ever had. It was encouraging to know that after 22 years of doing what we do, the music is reaching people.”
Always evolving in its musical output, each new record brings a new vision and progressive direction, “Our rule is that it can’t sound like it sounded before” comments League, he continues, “the music has to feel like it’s moving somewhere”
This also raises the question – where will Snarky Puppy go next? For Snarky Puppy fans, the answer to this is a very exciting prospect.