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Gordon Goodwin: Big Band’S Pied Piper
As leader of the 18-piece Big Phat Band, Grammy- and three-time Emmy-winning bandleader-composer-arranger-instrumentalist-conductor-instructor Gordon Goodwin is Big Band’s Pied Piper at the wave of a new tradition. With an energy that’s palpable and infectious, he’s connecting with a young audience that’s clamoring for more. As the New York Times wrote: “An excited throng of students treated ...
Art Tatum is Front Man in New L.A. Big Band Album
Pianist Art Tatum was once described as “the greatest soloist in jazz history, regardless of instrument." He passed away in 1956, the year before stereo recordings. Imagine being able to collaborate with Tatum today, to have him as the front man for your big band in new arrangements and recordings. This was the dream of bandleader ...
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Cooks at the Bakery
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at The Jazz Bakery Tuesday May 27th Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece jazz ensemble, celebrates and personifies the best of the big band tradition with a very contemporary and original sound. Through the writing genius of Gordon Goodwin, SRO audiences have enjoyed one of the most craftsman-like hard swinging ...
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at the Jazz Bakery
Big Phat Band at The Jazz Bakery May 27th Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece jazz ensemble, celebrates and personifies the best of the big band tradition with a very contemporary and original sound. Through the writing genius of Gordon Goodwin, SRO audiences have enjoyed one of the most craftsman-like hard swinging large jazz ensembles ...
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: The Phat Pack
by Jack Bowers
The suave and irrepressible Rat Pack, whose urbane image was shrewdly nurtured for so many years by Ol' Blue Eyes, meistersinger Frank Sinatra himself, is no longer with us. Luckily, we have as partial solace The Phat Pack, the convivial third recording by jack-of-all-trades Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Goodwin bows respectfully to his illustrious predecessors ...
XXL
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. High Maintenance
2. A Game of Inches
3. Comes Love
4. Thad Said No
5. Hunting Wabbits
6. The Quiet Corner
7. Horn of Puente
8. It's All Right With Me
9. The Jazz Police
10. Mozart's 40the Symphony in G Minor
11. What Sammy Said
12. Let the Good Times Roll
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: XXL
by Russell Moon
We still have a few weeks before he hear Auld Lang Syne, but I'm going to vote early. I hold in my hands the Album of the Year. XXL is the Big Phat Band's second album. Its first, Swingin' For the Fences, was nominated for two Grammys two years ago. Composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin has won three ...
Swingin' for the Fences
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Released: 2001
Track listing: Sing Sang Sung; Count Bubba; Samba del Gringo; Bach Two
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: Swingin' for the Fences
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
