Jazz Band Arrangements

Even for a fruitful composer and arranger in Hollywood, Gordon Goodwin's numbers tend to be impressive: A 2006 GRAMMY Award for his Instrumental Arrangement of "Incredits" from Pixar film The Incredibles, three Emmy Awards, and thirteen GRAMMY nominations.

Discover another impressive number to add to the list: eighteen. As in the number of artists in Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, the most interesting huge jazz ensembles in the world. Inhabited by L.A.'s finest players, the Big Phat Band takes the big musical organization custom in to the brand-new millennium with a contemporary, highly initial sound featuring Goodwin's amusing, complex, and hard-swinging compositions in a veritable grab case of types: move, Latin, blues, traditional, rock and much more.

A steady, persistent sound diet of this giants of jazz, pop music, rock and funk has nourished Goodwin's being since childhood. Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, world, Wind and Fire, and Tower of energy, among many more, loaded the well for songs their band makes these days. And like those other bands, Goodwin's songs is nothing lower than astonishing whenever experienced live.

Goodwin's power to combine jazz superiority with any musical style makes their writing attracting followers over the range. That's why both beboppers and headbangers dig Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band.

Created in 2000, the top Phat Band's debut recording, Swingin' When it comes to Fences (Silverline documents), showcased visitor music artists Arturo Sandoval and Eddie Daniels. It made history as the very first commercially readily available DVD-Audio title ever before released plus the very first DVD-Audio title to receive two GRAMMY nominations.

The musical organization's 2nd record, XXL (Silverline documents), was launched on DVD-Audio and compact disc in 2003. Charting its first week, XXL garnered three GRAMMY nominations for most readily useful big Jazz Ensemble Album, ideal Instrumental Composition ('Hunting Wabbits') and Best Instrumental Arrangement with Vocals ('Comes like'; with Brian McKnight and Take 6), while winning the Surround Sound Award for "best-made for Surround Sound Title." The list of visitor designers paired the high quality associated with very first release and featured, and others, Johnny Mathis and the incomparable Michael Brecker.