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{{Gordon Goodwin}}’s Big Phat Band Performs 'WRAP THIS' at LACM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPEiLDB79k&t=74



Los Angeles College of Music hosted a special live streaming event with Gordon Goodwin, four time GRAMMY® Award winning pianist, saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and arranger, and his BIG PHAT BAND, on November 8, 2015. They performed selections from their new album 'WRAP THIS' at Los Angeles College of Music. Gordon L. Goodwin (born 1954) is an American pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is the leader of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, and on faculty at the Los Angeles College of Music. He has won Grammy Awards and Daytime Emmy Awards and has received over twenty Grammy nominations for his compositions and arrangements. Gordon L. Goodwin (born 1954) is an American pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is the leader of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, and on faculty at the Los Angeles College of Music. He has won Grammy Awards and Daytime Emmy Awards and has received over twenty Grammy nominations for his compositions and arrangements. Goodwin has risen to prominence in the American studio music scene with his big band, The Big Phat Band. In the band, he plays piano and occasionally both the soprano and tenor saxophone. This band brings together players such as Wayne Bergeron, Eric Marienthal, and Andy Martin. These detailed music charts are all written or adapted by Gordon Goodwin. Several of his songs are plays on old jazz tunes: a prime example is Sing, Sang, Sung, which mimics the famous Louis Prima song Sing, Sing, Sing.