Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – XXL (2003/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – XXL (2003/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:30 minutes | 899 MB | Genre: Jazz
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XXL is the second studio album by Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, released on September 23, 2003. It includes guest performances by saxophonist Michael Brecker, vocal group Take 6, clarinetist Eddie Daniels, and singer Johnny Mathis.

XXL was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Gordon Goodwin received two more nominations, one for Best Instrumental Composition (“Hunting Wabbits”) and one for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist (“Comes Love”).

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. – Ken Dryden

Tracklist:
1-1. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – High Maintenance (06:17)
1-2. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – A Game of Inches (07:21)
1-3. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Comes Love (05:31)
1-4. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Thad Said No (05:45)
1-5. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Hunting Wabbits (06:20)
1-6. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – The Quiet Corner (06:20)
1-7. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Horn Of Puente (06:18)
1-8. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – It’s All Right With Me (04:44)
1-9. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – The Jazz Police (05:19)
1-10. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Mozart 40th Symphony In G Minor (08:07)
1-11. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – What Sammy Said (07:50)
1-12. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Let the Good Times Roll (03:31)

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