Act Your Age (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band album)

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Studio album by
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008 (2008-09-30)
Genre Jazz
Length67:39
Label Immergent
Producer Lee Ritenour
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band chronology
The Phat Pack
(2006)		Act Your Age
(2008)		 That's How We Roll
(2011)

Act Your Age is the fourth album by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. [1] It received a Grammy Award nomination in 2008 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Gordon Goodwin received nominations for Best Instrumental Composition ("Hit the Ground Running") and Best Instrumental Arrangement ("Yesterdays"). [2]

Contents

Guests include Chick Corea performing his own composition, "Señor Mouse". Another track incorporates Zenph Studios' re-performance of Art Tatum's 1949 recording of "Yesterdays" with a big band arrangement by Goodwin. [1]

The album includes a DVD containing recording studio footage and bonus features, such as a 5.1 surround sound mix of the album.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Gordon Goodwin except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hit the Ground Running" 4:56
2."Watermelon Man" Herbie Hancock 5:28
3."September" Al McKay, Allee Willis, Maurice White 4:29
4."Yesterdays" Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach 3:19
5."Señor Mouse" Chick Corea 5:00
6."Punta Del Soul" Dave Grusin 5:04
7."Act Your Age" 5:04
8."Chance Encounters" 7:35
9."Backrow Politics" 8:05
10."East Coast Envy" 5:13
11."El Macho Muchacho" 6:10
12."Gumbo Street" 6:33

Source: AllMusic

Personnel

Band

Guests

Technical

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References

  1. 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. Act Your Age at AllMusic. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Zenph Studios Gets Its First GRAMMY Nods" (PDF). Zenph Studios. 2008-12-07. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  3. ↑ "Act Your Age – Gordon Goodwin | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
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