Bill Goodwin (jazz drummer)

Bill Goodwin (jazz drummer)

Bill Goodwin (born: Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1942) is an American jazz drummer. Bill has been a professional drummer since 1959, and has performed with many jazz instrumentalists such as: Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Jim Hall, George Shearing and Bobby Hutcherson, and singers such as June Christy, Joe Williams, Tony Bennett, Mose Allison and Manhattan Transfer. Joining the performing ensemble of vibraphonist Gary Burton brought him to the East Coast in 1969. After a three year stint with Burton's group, Bill settled in the Poconos and worked the resorts. It was there that he and bassist Steve Gilmore met and became a team. Goodwin and Gilmore are both charter members of The Phil Woods Quartet (now Quintet), joining at its inception in February 1974. He also featured on drums on Tom Waits' album "Nighthawks at the Diner" in 1975. He also worked with Steely Dan during the mid-70's.

Bill has been a featured performer at the W. C. Handy Music Festival for many years, serving as a member of the performing ensemble known as the W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars.

Recordings

In addition to serving as drummer for the Phil Woods ensemble, Bill is an able recording executive, producing all of the The Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet and Little Big Band recordings since 1980, including:

* Grammy Award winning albums "More Live" (Adelphi), "At The Vanguard" (Antilles)
* 1992 Grammy nominee "All Bird's Children" (Concord Jazz)
* "The Phil Woods Quintet Meets Dizzy Gillespie" (Timeless Records)
* "Flowers for Hodges" by the Phil Woods and Jim McNeely duo

He has also produced several Tom Harrell recordings and was Omnisound's primary producer of jazz product including:

* "Phil Woods / Lew Tabackin"
* Dave Frishberg's "Songbooks," Volume I and Volume II.

Bill's most recently released production efforts are:

* "Live at the Deer Head" by Keith Jarrett (ECM Records),
* "The Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet 20th Anniversary Album" (Mosaic)
* Phil Woods’ "Astor & Elis" (Chesky Records)
* Phil Woods Quintet’s Mile High Jazz (Concord Jazz)

External links

* [http://www.philwoods.com/goodwin.htm Bill Goodwin bio at Phil Wood's website]
*Video: [http://www.philwoods.com/goodwin.htm Bill Goodwin playing with Phil Woods Quartet]
*Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuLT56tPF88 Bill Goodwin playing with Phil Woods Quintet]


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