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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Hit the Ground Running
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| 2. | Watermelon Man
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| 3. | September
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| 4. | Yesterdays
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| 5. | Se&
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| 6. | Punta del Soul
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| 7. | Act Your Age
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| 8. | Chance Encounters
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| 9. | Backrow Politics
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| 10. | East Coast Envy
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| 11. | El Macho Muchacho
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| 12. | Gumbo Street
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Hit the Ground Running
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| 2. | Watermelon Man
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| 3. | September
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| 4. | Yesterdays
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| 5. | Se&
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| 6. | Punta del Soul
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| 7. | Act Your Age
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| 8. | Chance Encounters
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| 9. | Backrow Politics
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| 10. | East Coast Envy
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| 11. | El Macho Muchacho
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| 12. | Gumbo Street
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| 13. | [Bonus Material] [*]
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Jazz
Disc 1: CD
Disc 2: DVD - 5.1 Surround Sound
Gordon Goodwin - Arranger, Group Member, Piano, Producer, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Alexander Iles - Trombone
Andrew Synowiec - Group Member, Guitar
Andy Martin - Group Member, Trombone
Art Tatum - Guest Appearance, Piano
Bernie Dresel - Drums, Group Member
Brad Dutz - Group Member, Percussion, Vibraphone
Brian Scanlon - Clarinet, Flute, Group Member, Sax (Tenor)
Charlie Morillas - Trombone
Chick Corea - Guest Appearance, Piano
Craig Ware - Trombone (Bass)
Dan Fornero - Group Member, Trumpet
Dan Savant - Group Member, Producer, Trumpet
Dave Grusin - Guest Appearance, Piano
Eric Marienthal - Flute, Group Member, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Soloist
Francisco Torres - Trombone
Grant Geissman - Guitar
Jay Mason - Bass, Clarinet (Bass), Group Member, Sax (Baritone)
Jeff Driskill - Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Lee Ritenour - Guest Appearance, Guitar, Producer
Nathan East - Bass (Electric), Guest Appearance
Patti Austin - Guest Appearance, Vocals
Sal Lozano - Flute, Group Member, Piccolo, Sax (Alto)
Wayne Bergeron - Group Member, Trumpet
* Bernie Kirsch - Engineer
* Booker T. Washington White - Music Preparation
* David A. Helfant - Executive Producer
* David K. Tedds - Producer, Project Coordinator
* Doug Sax - Mastering
* Gary Lee - Engineer
* Gus Skinas - Engineer
* John Trickett - Executive Producer
* Jon Senge - Music Preparation
* Michael Aarvold - Digital Editing, Engineer
* Michael Atwell - Digital Editing
* Paul Klingberg - Audio Engineer, Authoring, Graphic Design, Producer, Surround Mix, Video Editor
* Rex Bullington - Photography
* Richard King - Engineer
* Tommy Vicari - Engineer, Mixing
It isn't easy to keep a big band together, but Gordon Goodwin has come up with various strategies to maintain his Big Phat Band since its founding at the turn of the 21st century. Although the band is a vehicle for his writing and arranging, Goodwin has not been shy about bringing on eye-catching guest stars and trying new things, whether that meant having Johnny Mathis sing a number or Dave Sanborn contribute to a reading of "Play That Funky Music." He has been rewarded with Grammy nominations and stratospheric sales (for this style of music, that is) in the 15,000-20,000 range. Act Your Age, the fourth Big Phat Band album (not counting the group's 2006 soundtrack to Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas) again reveals Goodwin's marketing savvy. Deliberately offered up just before the deadline for the 2008 Grammy Awards, it boasts a bevy of guests including Chick Corea, who recreates his "Senor Mouse"; Patti Austin, singing a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's "September"; electric bassist Nathan East, taking the lead role on the title tune; Dave Grusin, playing on his "Punta Del Soul"; the album's producer, Lee Ritenour, adding electric guitar to "September" and "Punta Del Soul"; and, um, "Art Tatum." The quotation marks are necessary since the Tatum contribution is virtual, courtesy of an electronic process by which a Tatum performance of "Yesterdays" from 1949 was digitized, then re-performed by a Diskclavier, accompanied by a big band arrangement provided by Goodwin. Traditionalists will cringe, of course, but Goodwin doesn't care about them. He cares about reanimating big-band music. Funnily enough, he does that most consistently on the tracks that don't have any guests or gimmicks, and they actually take up a good part of a long disc, just not, for the most part, in the early sequencing, where the guest stars are found. As the album goes on, Goodwin's charts turn out to be punchy and inventive, and he is abetted by a precise and enthusiastic ensemble. He may have included more tangential elements than big band fans would prefer, but there is some undeniable contemporary big-band music on this album. (On CD copies of Act Your Age, "Floating Home," the album's final track, is available as a download-only track, not on the disc itself.)
--- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Gordon Goodwin
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Christmas, Swing, Soundtracks, Holiday
Saxophonist, keyboardist, and bandleader Gordon Goodwin appeared on albums by Louie Bellson and Gil Scott-Heron in the late '70s prior to the release of his debut solo album, Close to the Edge, on Nova in 1983. He continued to work primarily as a sideman, as well as increasingly as an arranger and orchestrator during the rest of the '80s, the '90s, and the early 2000s, with appearances on albums by the Tom Kubis Big Band, Grant Geissman, Perri, Miles Osland, Michael Crawford, Mark MancinaTrevor Rabin, Dennis Bono, Simone, and Dan SavantMike Watts, also serving as conductor on such soundtrack albums as Armageddon, Enemy of the State, and Gone in 60 Seconds. In 2000, he organized Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece big band, to record Swingin' for the Fences, released by Immergent Records. His primary income may have come from his arrangements, orchestrations, conducting, and occasional playing on soundtracks (including The Majestic, The One, and Spy Kids 2), but his heart was with his Big Phat Band, which followed up Swingin' for the Fences on September 23, 2003, with XXL, an eclectic effort bringing in rock and pop influences as well as humor and featuring as guest stars Take 6 and Johnny Mathis.
Goodwin won a Grammy Award for his instrumental arrangement of the track "Incredits" on the soundtrack of the 2004 film The Incredibles; the same year, he served as an orchestrator on the film National Treasure. The third album by the Big Phat Band, The Phat Pack, was released on June 13, 2006. Guests included Dianne Reeves and David Sanborn, and the album reached the Billboard jazz chart, selling more than 15,000 copies in its first two years of release, a substantial amount for a big-band jazz record. Later in the year, Goodwin combined his two major musical activities when the Big Phat Band performed the musical score for the animated holiday film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, also released on a soundtrack album. In 2007, Goodwin wrote the music for Dogs, the Musical and conducted the score for the film Snakes on a Plane. He also served as orchestrator and conductor on the 2008 film Get Smart. The fourth Big Phat Band album, Act Your Age, appeared on September 1, 2008, featuring guest stars including Chick Corea, Dave Grusin, Patti Austin, Nathan East, and Lee Ritenour (who produced the disc).
---William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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