Performing "Brother, I'm Hungry" with Snarky Puppy https://youtu.be/4xKnYC1K12M

Our approach comes from the New Orleans jazz tradition, where it is important to make sure the music is alive and reflects how we're feeling that day. If I'm excited one day and the songs are a little fast, well the songs are a little fast. If I'm struggling, have had...

When I'm coming out of the shower or driving in the car, if a musical idea came into my head, I would immediately sing and record it into my phone. If I'm sitting at the piano and happened across something, good or bad, I recorded it. I learned from Allen Toussaint...

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When songwriting, I write using various instruments: piano, organ, guitar, bass or voice. Each instrument brings something different out of me.