★★★★★
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band returns with its winning combination of impeccable musicianship and pop savvy. Goodwin's long history of working in the film industry serves him well; he knows how to deliver charts that burst with melodic ingenuity and snazzy rhythms. Goodwin's Hollywood tenure rears its head most explicitly on his frisky take on Irving Szathmary's "Get Smart." (Goodwin worked on the film of same name...
- jazztimes.com
2014-07-13
★★★★★
Act Your Age, the fourth album by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (not counting its soundtrack for the film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas), is of a piece with the group's first three releases, another relentlessly eclectic collection that is, at least for most of the first half of its running time, less interested in developing the modern possibilities of the big band than in merging the big-band sound to other styles...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Rest assured, big-band fans, that Gordon Goodwin is not trying to push those ensembles into modernity with his Big Phat Band's XXL, despite his use of the word "phat." While various styles are employed here, none of them would have discomfited audiences of the 1970s...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Hello, my name is Sean, and I am a DVD slut. No matter how lousy a certain movie might be-heck, even when I've already seen the piece of crap in the theater-if the DVD version includes "bonus material" (deleted scenes, director's commentary, making-of featurettes), then there's a good chance I'll be pulling out the wallet. Sure, I have classics like Taxi Driver, Don't Look Back, and Jaws, but I'm also the proud owner of Showgirls, Mission: Impossible 2, and 1941. I know: It's pathetic...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Track Listing: 1. High Maintenance2. A Game of Inches3. Comes Love4. Thad Said No5. Hunting Wabbits6. The Quiet Corner7. Horn of Puente8. It's All Right With Me9. The Jazz Police10. Mozart's 40the Symphony in G Minor11. What Sammy Said12...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: Hit the Ground Running; Watermelon Man; September; Yesterdays; Señor Mouse; Punta Del Soul; Act Your Age; Chance Encounters; Backrow Politics; East Coast Envy; El Macho Muchacho; Gumbo Street...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
To carry the baseball metaphor a step further, the hard-hitting Big Phat Band not only swings for the fences on skipper Gordon Goodwin's dynamic new album, it slams almost every fastball or curve thrown its way well beyond the fence and out of the park. And even when the ensemble misses, it does so by no more than a whisker...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: Cut 'n Run; Too Close for Comfort; Count Bubba's Revenge; Play That Funky Music; The Phat Pack; Hunting Wabbits 2 (A Bad Hare Day); La Almeja Pequena (The Little Clam); Get in Line; Attack of the Killer Tomatoes; Under the Wire; Whodunnit?; It Was a Very Good Year; Ever Braver, Ever Stronger (An American Elegy) (75:11)...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
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