^ a b Flynn, Mike (September 18, 2018)."Ghost-Note is driven by the search for a groove". "The City You Love to Hate Makes Every Song You Love". ^ a b "This Weekend's Kids & Family Activities in Bronx".^ a b Arnaudin, Edwin (October 15, 2018)."Ghost-Note is doing it all over again, from Snarky Puppy's famous roots". ^ a b c Stewart, Allison (March 23, 2017).Robert "Sput" Searight - drums, keyboards.They have performed in Memphis, Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Dallas, as well as at shows in Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. The group has played the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, the London Jazz Festival, the TD Ottawa JazzFest, and the Montreal Jazz Fest. In 2018, the touring ensemble included bassist Dwayne "MonoNeon" Thomas Jr., keyboardists Xavier Taplin and Vaughn "V.Keys" Henry, guitarist Peter Knudsen, and saxophonist/flutist Jonathan Mones. A rotating membership of musicians joined them onstage, including keyboardist Daniel Jones, xylosynth player Nick Werth, drummer Alvin Ford Jr and bassist Cody Wright. It's the omnivorous diet of J Dilla come to life in big-band form." Touring Matt Stieg of New York magazine wrote that, on Swagism, Searight and Werth "stretch their ensemble into all possible contortions, from CTI's disco to D'Angelo's funk. It featured guitarist Raja Kassis, spoken word artist and author Prudence the Auset Sneed, saxophonist Kamasi Washington and guitarist Brandon "Taz" Neiderauer. Swagism was Ghost-Note's second album, released in April 2018 on Ropeadope.
Fortified featured Snarky Puppy keyboardist Shaun Martin, vocalist N'Dambi and guitarist Mark Lettieri, among others. They formed Ghost-Note and released their first album, Fortified, on the Ropeadope label in October 2015, incorporating influences from jazz, hip hop and EDM music. In 2014, Searight and Werth wanted to create another band that would focus on percussion and what they termed "conscious funk". Searight and Werth performed together with Snarky Puppy through seven albums (of nine the group recorded during that time). Nate Werth was a music student at the University of North Texas and a member of Snarky Puppy, then playing jam sessions around Dallas. “We haven’t found something that hasn’t worked yet, and I think if we do we’ll try to alter it in a way to make the audience love it instead of abandoning it.Robert "Sput" Searight founded God's Property, a gospel choir affiliated with Kirk Franklin. “We’re learning and we’re not afraid to change,” he says. As the band approaches its 100th live show while prepping a sophomore album release, Werth expresses a shared sense of purpose and open-mindedness between himself, Searight and their bandmates. Werth says he and Searight have developed an ability to “write music together without really trying.” That’s been particularly important in the quickly evolving Ghost-Note project, which started out with a lineup comprised solely of percussionists, but now features a more diverse seven-piece touring lineup. We really get along and are just the best of friends.” “But what brought it really together and kept it together, the glue, is our friendship and our brotherhood. “Those two worlds colliding worked really well,” he says. Werth, who describes himself as young and eager to work at the time, immediately latched on to Searight. Searight was at the time more experienced than Werth and many others in Snarky Puppy, having toured with Grammy-winning gospel star Kirk Franklin. Werth joined Snarky Puppy after he graduated, where he met Searight.
Every semester I was taking 23 credit hours or something, but only 13 or 14 of those were going toward my degree.” “Where most people would come in and get a taste for it and go back to their program and get back to what their degree was in, I just loved all of these different worlds of music and those classes,” he says.
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