The Phat Pack

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The Phat Pack
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Studio album by
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
ReleasedJune 13, 2006 (2006-06-13)
StudioCapitol Records and Conway Studios, Hollywood, California; O'Henry Studios, Burbank; Rimrock Studios, Thousand Oaks; Vertical Sound, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Jazz, big band
Length75:05
Label Immergent
Producer Gordon Goodwin, Evan Johnson, Dan Savant, David Tedds
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band chronology
XXL
(2003)		The Phat Pack
(2006)		 Act Your Age
(2008)

The Phat Pack is the third studio album by the jazz ensemble Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Goodwin received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement for the song "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". [1]

Contents

The title is a parody of the Rat Pack, a group of friends and performers during the 1960s which included Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Goodwin arranged cover versions of two songs that were associated with the Rat Pack, "Too Close for Comfort" and "It Was a Very Good Year", and a hit from the 1970s, "Play That Funky Music". [2]

Soloists include Wayne Bergeron, Eddie Daniels, Eric Marienthal, Andy Martin, David Sanborn, Bob Summers, and the vocal group Take 6. [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Gordon Goodwin except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cut 'n' Run" 6:07
2."Too Close for Comfort" Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss 3:39
3."Count Bubba's Revenge" 6:36
4."Play That Funky Music" Rob Parissi 6:13
5."The Phat Pack" 6:39
6."Hunting Wabbits 2 (A Bad Hare Day)" 4:47
7."La Almeja Pequena (The Little Clam)" 7:36
8."Get in Line" 6:53
9."Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" 5:09
10."Under the Wire" 5:30
11."Whodunnit?" 6:28
12."It Was a Very Good Year" Ervin Drake 5:20
13."Ever Braver, Ever Stronger (An American Elegy)" 4:08

Source: AllMusic [4]

Personnel

Production

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References

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  2. ↑ Bowers, Jack (2 August 2006). "Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: The Phat Pack". All About Jazz. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Siders, Harvey (1 June 2006). "Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: The Phat Pack - JazzTimes". JazzTimes. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Phat Pack". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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