When I was in seventh grade, I wrote a ten-line poem for Tracy, a girl I was desperately in love with. At around the same age, Gordon Goodwin wrote his first big band chart. Now, it could be argued that my accomplishment was more important in the grand scheme of things, but by high school, Tracy had dumped me. Gordo went on to become a Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated composer. I’ll let you be the judge.
These days, Goodwin is leading the Big Phat Band, an 18-piece L.A.-based jazz ensemble that honors the big band tradition with a creative and contemporary twist. They have two Grammy-nominated albums, and their latest is called The Phat Pack (get it?). This Saturday night, May 31, they’ll phatten up Manchester locals with a healthy dose of big band shenanigans at the Palace Theater.
It’s actually going to be a whole day of fun, with instrumental performance clinics being held from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. at the Palace Theater and at the Manchester Community Music School. Three different brass clinics with the trumpet, trombone and sax players from the Big Phat Band will be held simultaneously at the school, while the rhythm section clinic will be held at the Palace Theater. If all this weren’t enough, these clinics will be followed at 3:30 p.m. by a 1-hour jazz composing and arranging clinic run by Goodwin himself, also at the Palace Theater. Freshly educated students will have the chance to break for Burger King before the evening performance at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25 for students, $50 for adults, and $80 for VIPs. All clinics are ticketed separately and are $20 for students and $40 for adults.
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Posted by Courtney Odonnell | November 13, 2008 2:10 AM
Posted on November 13, 2008 02:10