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...moment of truth: Gordon Goodwin is a seventh-grader in Wichita, Kans. He listens to his first Count Basie record, The Queen Bee. Even though he has never heard Big Band jazz before, it hits him like something he has always known. He thinks, "That's it. That's going to be my life." And for the next three decades or so, it is--sort of. After studying music in college, he becomes a busy pianist, saxophonist and arranger at Disney theme parks and Hollywood studios, with a five-year interlude as musical director for Johnny Mathis. He wins three...
...result is the Big Phat Band, the powerhouse 18-piece ensemble that Goodwin formed in 2000. Made up of topflight studio musicians, it plays Goodwin's complex, bristling arrangements with hair-raising virtuosity. "There are no passengers in this band," says lead trumpeter Wayne Bergeron. "Everybody can drive...
...Goodwin, another classmate of Magoon’s, remembered him as a reliable friend whom she turned to for advice...
...life. He has spearheaded a program focused on adult English education in New York City, which will be up and running this fall.“It’s not journalism but it sure is fun,” Rosenthal says.—Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Evan R. Johnson ’06, Aria S.K. Laskin ’08, Alwa A. Cooper ’08, Leon Neyfakh ’07, Elizabeth W. Green ’06. Ashley M. Pletz ’08, Liz C. Goodwin ’08, and M. Aidan Kelly ’08 are staff members of The Crimson. They live in Lamont Library...