GORDON GOODWIN BIG PHAT BAND

Hunting Wabbits

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Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band is a modern big band which successfully blends elements of jazz and rock. Goodwin, who serves as keyboardist, composer, arranger and conductor, has created music that proves to be consistently catchy to the listener and challenging to his musicians. The leader obviously loves a good laugh. The playful staccato brass and reeds are the centerpiece of "Hunting Wabbits" before it transforms into a brisk bluesy vehicle. "Horn of Plenty," his tribute to the late Latin jazz great Tito Puente, features trumpeter Wayne Bergeron, and "The Jazz Police" is a rockish but amusing slap at closed-minded critics and radio hosts. He also makes good use of special guests. The vocal group Take 6 is featured on swinging charts of the standards "Comes Love" and "It's All Right With Me." Clarinetist Eddie Daniels is showcased in the snappy "Thad Said No" and a delicious rearrangement of the well-known theme from Mozart's 40th Symphony. Singer Johnny Mathis, hardly a jazz singer, nonetheless has fun with R&B oldie "Let the Good Times Roll." Rarely are big bands like Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band so able to combine such a diversity of influences into such a tantalizing mix

Gordon Goodwin
Arranger, Composer, Liner Notes, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Saxophone, Vocal Arrangement
Richard Shaw
Bass (Acoustic), Bass (Electric)
Jay Mason
Clarinet (Bass), Flute, Sax (Baritone)
Brian Scanlon
Clarinet, Flute, Primary Artist, Sax (Tenor)
Jeff Driskill
Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Mark Kibble

Composer, Vocal Arrangement

Peter Erskine
Drums, Guest Artist

Ray Brinker

Drums

Bernie Dresel

Drums

Sal Lozano
Flute, Flute (Alto), Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)

Eric Marienthal

Flute, Primary Artist, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)

Michael Brecker

Guest Artist, Performer, Primary Artist

Carl Verheyen
Guitar, Primary Artist

Grant Geissman

Guitar

Luis Conte
Percussion Rex Bullington

Andrew Martin
Primary Artist, Trombone

Wayne Bergeron

Primary Artist, Trumpet

Eddie Daniels

Primary Artist

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Primary Artist

Dan Savant
Producer, Trumpet John Yoakum Sax (Alto)

Craig Ware

Trombone (Bass)

Steven Holtman

Trombone

JAZZ AT LINCON CENTER

COUNT BASIE, JOE WILLIAMS, LAMBERT HENDRICKS & ROSS - Sing A Song Of Basie

Going To Chicago

Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross had combined their voices to recreate the Count Basie Orchestra on their debut release Sing a Song of Basie. For this follow-up (which has not yet been reissued on CD), they actually had the services of the Basie big band itself. The vocal trio (who once again overdubbed their voices in spots several times) performs ten Basie classics including an exciting "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Tickle Toe," "The King," "Swingin' the Blues" and "Li'l Darlin'." Most memorable is "Going to Chicago Blues" which has L, H & Ross recreating the Basie Orchestra while Joe Williams sings the regular vocal; it is quite fascinating to hear.

MEL LEWIS, BOB BROOKMEYER - Live At The Village Vandguard

    •    Bob Brookmeyer - trombone (solista nei brani 05 & 06), arrangiamenti, compositore
    •    Clark Terry - flugelhorn (solista nei brani 05 & 06)
    •    Earl Gardner - tromba
    •    Ron Tooley - tromba
    •    Larry Moses - tromba
    •    John Marshall - tromba
    •    Stephanie Fauber - french horn
    •    John Mosca - trombone
    •    Lee Robertson - trombone
    •    Earl McIntyre - trombone
    •    Lolly Bienenfeld - trombone
    •    Dick Oatts - reeds (solista sassofono alto nel brano 04 - sassofono soprano brano 01)
    •    Steve Coleman - reeds
    •    Bob Mintzer - reeds
    •    Richard Perry - reeds (solista sassofono tenore nel brano 03)
    •    Gary Pribeck - reeds (solista sassofono baritono nel brano 03)
    •    Jim McNeeley - pianoforte (solista nei brani 01 & 02)
    •    Rufus Reid - contrabbasso
    •    Mel Lewis - batteria

GIL EVANS - Out Of The Cool

FULL ALBUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bthfT6Am8Wc&list=OLAK5uy_njHIhTELlhuW6TZ0HBzk8aE_zj8-NPtxE

Out of the Cool, released in 1960, was the first recording Gil Evans issued after three straight albums with Miles Davis -- Sketches of Spain being the final one before this. Evans had learned much from Davis about improvisation, instinct, and space (the trumpeter learned plenty, too, especially about color, texture, and dynamic tension). Evans orchestrates less here, instead concentrating on the rhythm section built around Elvin Jones, Charlie Persip, bassist Ron Carter, and guitarist Ray Crawford. The maestro in the piano chair also assembled a crack horn section for this date, with Ray Beckinstein, Budd Johnson, and Eddie Caine on saxophones, trombonists Jimmy Knepper, Keg Johnson, and bass trombonist Tony Studd, with Johnny Coles and Phil Sunkel on trumpet, Bill Barber on tuba, and Bob Tricarico on flute, bassoon, and piccolo. The music here is of a wondrous variety, bookended by two stellar Evans compositions in "La Nevada," and "Sunken Treasure." The middle of the record is filled out by the lovely standard "Where Flamingos Fly," Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht's "Bilbao Song," and George Russell's classic "Stratusphunk." The sonics are alternately warm, breezy, and nocturnal, especially on the 15-plus-minute opener which captures the laid-back West Coast cool jazz feel juxtaposed by the percolating, even bubbling hot rhythmic pulse of the tough streets of Las Vegas. The horns are held back for long periods in the mix and the drums pop right up front, Crawford's solo -- drenched in funky blues -- is smoking. When the trombones re-enter, they are slow and moaning, and the piccolo digs in for an in the pocket, pulsing break. Whoa.
Things are brought back to the lyrical impressionism Evans is most well known for at the beginning of "Where Flamingos Fly." Following a four-note theme on guitar, flute, tuba, and trombone, it comes out dramatic and blue, but utterly spacious and warm. The melancholy feels like the tune "Summertime" in the trombone melody, but shifts toward something less impressionistic and more expressionist entirely by the use of gentle dissonance by the second verse as the horns begin to ratchet things up just a bit, allowing Persip and Jones to play in the middle on a variety of percussion instruments before the tune takes on a New Orleans feel, and indeed traces much of orchestral jazz history over the course of its five minutes without breaking a sweat. "Stratusphunk" is the most angular tune here, but Evans and company lend such an element of swing to the tune that its edges are barely experienced by the listener. For all his seriousness, there was a great deal of warmth and humor in Evans' approach to arranging. His use of the bassoon as a sound effects instrument at the beginning is one such moment emerging right out of the bass trombone. At first, the walking bassline played by Carter feels at odds with the lithe and limber horn lines which begin to assert themselves in full finger popping swing etiquette, but Carter seamlessly blends in. Again, Crawford's guitar solo in the midst of all that brass is the voice of song itself, but it's funky before Johnny Coles' fine trumpet solo ushers in an entirely new chart for the brass. The final cut, "Sunken Treasure," is a moody piece of noir that keeps its pulse inside the role of bass trombone and tuba. Percussion here, with maracas, is more of a coloration device, and the blues emerge from the trumpets and from Carter. It's an odd way to close a record, but its deep-night feel is something that may echo the "cool" yet looks toward something deeper and hotter -- which is exactly what followed later with Into the Hot. This set is not only brilliant, it's fun.

AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

Personnel
Ron Carter
Bass, Guest Artist, Trombone
Bob Tricarico
Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo
Elvin Jones
Drums, Guest Artist, Percussion
Charlie Persip
Drums, Guest Artist, Percussion
Raymond Beckenstein
Flute, Piccolo, Sax (Alto)
Eddie Caine
Flute, Piccolo, Sax (Alto)
Ray Crawford
Guest Artist, Guitar
Jimmy Knepper
Guest Artist, Trombone
Johnny Coles
Guest Artist, Trumpet
Billy Barber
Guest Artist
Budd Johnson
Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Tony Studd
Trombone, Trombone (Bass)
Keg Johnson
Trombone
Phil Sunkel
Trumpet
Billy Ray Barber
Tuba

George Russell and Big Bang Band - Live at Circus in Stockholm Sweden

TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI - Four Seasons

Dance of the Gremlin

Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw

 

Contemporary big band jazz cannot be played much better – Jack Bower, All About Jazz (USA)

the Dutch response to modern jazz ensembles – Detlef Ott, The Gazette (Germany)
In the Netherlands the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw put big band music back on the map. Since 1999 we have been the backbone of jazz program at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, performing alongside at many other venues in the Netherlands and abroad, with many tens of thousands of visitors every year.
We aim to make our cultural heritage of almost a century of Dutch jazz accessible to new generations and at the same time to focus on innovation and new music. [Read more]
Several times the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw was proclaimed the best and most swinging Dutch big band and since the launch of our new album Crossroads (October 2018) this is amply confirmed by the enthusiasm of our audience as well as that of the national and international press.

SYD LAWRENCE BIG BAND CONCERT - 1990

Claude Bolling Big Band THE VICTORY CONCERT Paris 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOHWnKHmtE&feature=youtu.be

-  Recorded on 25th August 1994 in la Place de la Concorde, Paris.

-  The Claude Bolling Big Band :- Christian Martinez, Claude Egéa, Michel Delakian, Michel Bonnet, trumpet; André Paquinet, Benny Vasseur, Jean-Christophe Vilain, Émile Vilain, trombone; Philippe Portejoie, Claude Tissendier, Pierre Schirrer, Richard Foy, Jean Éteve, reeds; Claude Bolling, piano, leader; Jean-Paul Charlap, guitar; Pierre-Yves Sorin, acoustic double bass; Vincent Cordelette, drums; Laïka, Jeffery Smith, vocal. (Personnel on Camera)
Made-for-TV programme or made-for-video/DVD release