| Swingin' for the Fences | ||||
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| Studio album by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band | ||||
| Released | January 23, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Jazz, big band, funk | |||
| Length | 60:09 | |||
| Label | Silverline | |||
| Producer | Ken Caillat, Leo Rossi, John Trickett, Jon Baker, Gordon Goodwin, Dan Savant | |||
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Swingin' for the Fences is the debut album by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece big band led by Gordon Goodwin.
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is an 18-piece jazz orchestra that combines the big band swing of the 1930s and 1940s with contemporary music such as funk and jazz fusion. The band is led by Gordon Goodwin, who arranges, composes, plays piano and saxophone. Since its origin, the Big Phat Band has received several Grammy Awards and many Grammy nominations.
Goodwin composed the music except for "Two-Part Invention in D Minor", a jazz update of J. S. Bach. He wrote the arrangements and played alto and soprano saxophone. "Sing Sang Sung" is based on "Sing, Sing, Sing", which was written by Louis Prima and made famous by Benny Goodman's big band.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Art of Fugue, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
"Sing, Sing, Sing " is a 1936 song, with music and lyrics by Louis Prima, who first recorded it with the New Orleans Gang. Brunswick Records released it on February 28, 1936 on the 78 rpm record format, with "It's Been So Long" as the B-side. The song is strongly identified with the big band and swing eras. Several have performed the piece as an instrumental, including Fletcher Henderson and, most famously, Benny Goodman.
Louis Leo Prima was an American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.
There are solos by the Big Phat Band's Dan Higgins on saxophone, Andy Martin on trombone, Tom Ranier on piano, and Goodwin on saxophone. Guests include Arturo Sandoval, Eric Marienthal, Eddie Daniels, and Brandon Fields. [1] [2]
Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer.
Eric Marienthal is a Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and pop genres.
Eddie Daniels is an American musician and composer. Although he is best known as a jazz clarinetist, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on clarinet.
Swingin' for the Fences received two Grammy Award nominations. It was the first album released on DVD-Audio and the first DVD-Audio to be nominated for two Grammy Awards. [3]
DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio uses most of the storage on the disc for high-quality audio and is not intended to be a video delivery format. DVD-Audio has much higher audio quality than most video DVDs containing concert films or music videos.
