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Awards

Grammy Award • Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Life in the Bubble (2014)


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Album Review

Jeremy Cohen: Raymond Scott Reimagined

Read "Raymond Scott Reimagined" reviewed by Walter Atkins


Raymond Scott Reimagined is an engaging collaborative project with Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band and the Grammy winning acapella group Take 6 on two tracks. The album is a thoughtful and stylish interpretation of Raymond Scott's legacy. It is also interspersed with audio tidbits featuring Scott's singular musical approaches. The album kicks off with the enticing “Powerhouse," familiar to anyone who has watched a Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon. “Toy Trumpet" is a tasty composition ...

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In Pictures

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at The Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival

Read "Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at The Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival" reviewed by Manny Hebron


Summer is officially here which means the Hollywood Bowl plays host to elite artists from all music genres. The Hollywood Bowl also celebrates its centenary having opened in 1922. The annual festival, formerly the Playboy Jazz Festival, celebrated its 42nd year at the Bowl the weekend of June 25-26, 2022. With Arsenio Hall hosting both Saturday and Sunday, this year's lineup featured several Grammy-winning musicians including composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin who performed music from his five-decade career with his ...

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Album Review

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: The Reset

Read "The Reset" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Gordon Goodwin's dynamic Big Phat Band rumbles back onto the scene with The Reset, a somewhat less-than-big-phat album whose dual purpose, according to Goodwin, is to express hope and gratitude in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and to honor one of Goodwin's mentors, the late Sammy Nestico. Goodwin calls the album an EP, whose twenty-eight minute playing time places it in roughly the same ballpark as a vinyl LP from the good old days before digital recording and streaming. ...

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Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

It's been a while since we've highlighted any big band clips for this weekly feature, and so today let's take a look at some videos of pianist, saxophonist and arranger/composer Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, who are coming to town to play next Saturday, April 17 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center as part of the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival.Formed in 2000 and based in Los Angeles, the 17-piece ...

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Performance / Tour

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Cooks at the Bakery

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Cooks at the Bakery

Source: All About Jazz

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 large jazz ensembles comprised of L.A.'s finest musicians. Gordon's witty and insightful arrangements propel the listener on a journey through a myriad of styles: ...

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Performance / Tour

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at the Jazz Bakery

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at the Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz

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 comprised of L.A.'s finest musicians. Gordon's witty and insightful arrangements propel the listener on a journey through a myriad of styles: latin, blues, swing, ...

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Music Industry

Be Featured on Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's Next Record

Be Featured on Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's Next Record

Source: All About Jazz

Grammy winning artist Gordon Goodwin and the Big Phat Band are showing just how much they love their fans by inviting them to perform on their next album by way of a talent search called The Big Phat Jam (www.bigphatjam.com). The talent search, launching March 19, will feature fans competing with other contestants for eight weeks to see who has the best jazz improvisational skills. Additionally, a special vocal category will give fans an opportunity to sing with the band. ...

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Recording

The latest disc from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

The latest disc from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Source: All About Jazz

The latest disc from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, The Phat Pack, showcases more of the hot licks that fans have come to know and love. In addition to the playful jazz of such tracks as “Whodunnit?" and “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", the Big Phat Band teams up with guest vocalist Dianne Reeves, fresh from winning a Grammy for her work on the soundtrack to the Oscar winning film “Good Night and Good Luck." In true “Rat Pack" fashion, ...

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Recording

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band New CD on Sale Now

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band New CD on Sale Now

Source: All About Jazz


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Recording

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Releases "The Phat Pack"

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Releases "The Phat Pack"

Source: All About Jazz

GORDON GOODWIN'S BIG PHAT BAND RETURNS WITH THE PHAT PACK A TOAST TO THE SWINGING VEGAS CREW AND MORE

In Stores June 13th (immergent)

On a mission to bring the music, persona and effortless cool of the Rat Pack and big band eras back to the modern world, The Big Phat Band releases The Phat Pack on June 13th (immergent), their tip of the hat to a sound that refuses to go out of style. “We in the ...

“The Big Phat Band provides potent testimony to the sheer exhilaration of big band jazz…a combination of crisp accuracy and fiery soloing.” - LA Times

“I was immediately taken by Gordon’s contemporary musical viewpoint, the dynamics of his “Big Phat Band,” its bevy of superb soloists, and the exhilaration of its sound.” - Quincy Jones

Gordon is an arranger of absolutely no limit of musical styles and composer of some of the best compositions ever. He is a man of exquisite musical taste. I am truly blessed to have him in my life.” —Johnny Mathis

Concerts

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Raymond Scott...

ViolinJazz Recordings
2023

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The Reset

Music of Content
2021

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Cutey and the Dragon

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Toy Trumpet

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

The Reset

From: The Reset
By Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Videos

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