Piece Comment

Review of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - "XXL"


This piece turned me on to a great new band. Big Phat Band swings! What a sound -- Count Basie meets Quincy Jones.
But for a new listener who wanted to learn more about Gordon Goodwin (he's apparently a very talented emmy-award winning composer who's done a lot of work in film and television) I just didn't get a good thread here. The pieces are broken into 5 roughly 2 and a half minute segments for use as drop-ins. I would have preferred a longer piece with more of a narrative. I'm not sure these would work well as drop ins. The production is first rate though, the music is clean and the cuts are nice and long.