Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band date at Yoshi’s to Benefit Albany Music fund

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band will play two shows at Yoshi’s Oakland, at Jack London Square, is located at 510 Embarcadero West in Oakland CA. on May 18^th at 8:00 and 10:00 pm. They will be playing this date celebrating their new Concord CD release That’s How We Roll …. Contact Yoshi’s at 510.238.9200 for tickets to this extraordinary event.

Gordon Goodwin will be donating 100% of the proceeds from the shows to the Albany Music Fund in memory of Jesse Chow-Smith The Chow-Smith family will also be donating $4.00 for each ticket sold to CureSearch For Children's Cancer, an organization which is dedicated to raising funds for the Children's Oncology Group.

For ten years, saxophonist/pianist and GRAMMY^Ò-winning composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin has been driving a train that won’t stop. He first assembled his Big Phat Band in 2000 – an ironic starting point for an 18-piece big band, given that the fleeting neo-swing craze of the late 1990s was just winding down. But Goodwin and his crew have always been the real deal, and have always been in it for the long haul. In the decade since their ambitious beginnings, the Big Phat Band has burned up stages and studios with an eclectic, intelligent and high-energy brand of music that marries the best elements of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, John Barry and other big-band and orchestral jazz giants of the past 70 years.

The Big Phat Band’s journey takes a new turn with the April 12, 2011, release of That’s How We Roll, the group’s sixth recording overall and their first on Telarc International, a division of Concord Music Group.

GORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND ROLLS OUT THE LATEST CHAPTER IN A DECADE-LONG CAREER

That’s How We Roll – set for release on April 12, 2011 – marks

the 18-piece band’s debut on Telarc

Guest musicians include Take 6, Gerald Albright,

Dave Koz and Marcus Miller

For bookings contact: Casting New Lives: 858-375-5751