Jazz Articles about Gordon Goodwin

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: Swingin' for the Fences

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2001

To carry the baseball metaphor a step further, the hard–hitting Big Phat Band not only swings for the fences on skipper Gordon Goodwin’s dynamic new album, it slams almost every fastball or curve thrown its way well beyond the fence and out of the park. And even when the ensemble misses, it does so by no more than a whisker. From this vantage point the first eight tracks are towering home runs, while the last two are solidly struck triples ...