Musician

Gordon Goodwin

Born: December 30, 1954

Even for a successful composer and arranger in Hollywood, Gordon Goodwin��s numbers are impressive: A 2006 GRAMMY Award for his Instrumental Arrangement of ��Incredits�� from the Pixar film The Incredibles, three Emmy Awards, and thirteen GRAMMY nominations. Here��s another impressive number to add to the list: eighteen. As in the number of musicians in Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band, one of the most exciting large jazz ensembles on the planet. Populated by L.A.��s finest players, the Big Phat Band takes the big band tradition into the new millennium with a contemporary, highly original sound featuring Goodwin��s witty, intricate, and hard-swinging compositions in a veritable grab bag of styles: swing, Latin, blues, classical, rock and more. A steady, persistent audio diet of the giants of jazz, pop, rock and funk has nourished Goodwin��s being since childhood

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Enrique Thompson, Artemis, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

by Jerome Wilson
May 28, 2025

This wide-ranging program of modern jazz features work from Enrique Thompson, Gerry Gibbs, Artemis, Marc Ribot, Houston Person, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextet “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Houston Person “Minton's" from The Melody Lingers ...

Album

Aim High/The 2024 Jazz Heritage Series

By The Airmen of Note

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Don��t Blink; Second Chances; Hunting Wabbits; A Mother��s Cry; Darr Niles; Woman Child; Hey Lalo!; Waltz for My Fathers and Brothers; Things to Come.

Article: Album Review

USAF Airmen of Note: Aim High/The 2024 Jazz Heritage Series

by Jack Bowers
November 15, 2024

Aim High, recorded as part of the 2024 Jazz Heritage Series, is the forty-sixth album by the U.S. armed services' premier jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note, founded in 1950 to honor the tradition of Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Corps dance band, which entertained the troops during World War II until Miller's untimely death in ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Lakecia Benjamin, Bobby Naughton, and Raymond Scott

by Jerome Wilson
September 4, 2024

This show features some reimaginings, Lakecia Benjamin reworking her own music, and two contemporary groups revisiting Raymond Scott's novelty pieces. The program also contains work by Bobby Naughton, Josh Berman, and Lena Bloch, among others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...

Video

Cutey and the Dragon Discussion

Featuring the music of Gordon Goodwin
Duration: 3:44
January 3, 2024

Brought to life, a unique roundtable of GRAMMY-nominated/winning composers/musicians and members of the Raymond Scott family who discuss/express their excitement and gratitude for Raymond Scott Reimagined, an unprecedented collaboration that features "Cutey and the Dragon," a 2024 GRAMMY nomination recipient for 'Best Instrumental Composition�� (co-written by Raymond Scott, who started it in 1982 as a sketch to help his granddaughter with her viola lessons, and Gordon Goodwin, who finished it for the album). It represents the first-ever GRAMMY nomination for Raymond Scott, a musical visionary decades ahead of his time (1908-1994).

Featured speakers include: Gordon Goodwin, Grammy/Emmy winning Composer and Arranger; Jeremy Cohen, Lead violinist of GRAMMY-nominated Classical Crossover group, Quartet San Francisco and Executive Producer of Raymond Scott Reimagined; Stan Warnow. Raymond Scott's son and filmmaker/documentarian (Deconstructing Dad); Deb Scott Studebaker, Raymond Scott's daughter and Co-COO of Reckless Night Music; Kathy Makover, Raymond Scott's granddaughter, musician and inspiration for "Cutey and the Dragon".

Album

Raymond Scott Reimagined

By Quartet San Francisco

Label: ViolinJazz Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Powerhouse (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band); Raymond Scott On The Creative Process (R. Scott, Spoken Word); Toy Trumpet (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band); In An 18th Century Drawing Room (Quartet San Francisco, Take 6; Gordon Goodwin); Raymond Scott On Rehearsing The Quintette (R. Scott, Spoken Word); Cutey And The Dragon (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band); Huckleberry Duck (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin); ��I Remember Nothing Of That�� (R. Scott And Art Shifrin, Spoken Word); The Quintette Goes To A Dance (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band); Yesterday��S Ice Cubes (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band); Quintessentially American (R. Scott And John Williams, Spoken Word); Twilight In Turkey (Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin��s Big Phat Band); ��I��m An Experimentalist�� (R. Scott, Spoken Word); Serenade (Quartet San Francisco, Take 6)

Song of the Day

Cutey and the Dragon

December 21, 2023

Album: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Quartet San Francisco
Label: ViolinJazz Recordings
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:02

Video

Cutey and the Dragon

Featuring the music of Gordon Goodwin
Duration: 05:24
December 23, 2023

From the critically-acclaimed album, 'Raymond Scott Reimagined,' "Cutey and the Dragon" represents the first new Raymond Scott composition in 40 years. Derived from a musical sketch Scott drafted in 1982 for his granddaughter Kathy to help with her viola lessons while attending Interlochen Arts Academy, the tune was completed by GRAMMY?/Emmy winning composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin and is now up for consideration for 'Best Instrumental Composition' for the 66th Annual GRAMMYS? taking place in February (2024). In total, the song features 20 musicians including renown Classical Crossover group Quartet San Francisco, trumpeter Warner Bergeron and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band.

Article: Album Review

Russell Scarbrough: Fun Times

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2023

Bandleader Russell Scarbrough has an intriguing motto: “If it's not fun, we're not doing it right!" He also had an intriguing way of recording his debut album, Fun Times, to which an entire review could be devoted. Suffice to say that the individual parts were taped in isolation owing to the Covid pandemic and sent to ...