F. Bill Goodwin (born Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1942) is an American jazz drummer.

Career

Goodwin began his professional career at the age of seventeen with saxophonist Charles Lloyd. During the 1960s, he worked with

Mike Melvoin Mike Melvoin (May 10, 1937February 22, 2012) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He served as chairman and president of The Recording Academy and worked as a prolific studio musician, recording with Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, ...

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, Paul Horn,

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Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thro ...

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, and Gabor Szabo. Joining the performing ensemble of vibraphonist

Gary Burton Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be he ...

brought him to the East Coast in 1969. After three years with Burton, Goodwin settled in the

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and worked in hotels and resorts. In 1974, he became a founding member of the

Phil Woods Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer. Biography Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. After inheriting a saxophone at age 12, he began ...

Quartet. He worked with Woods for forty years as a drummer and record producer, winning three Grammy Awards. He has performed with

Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...

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, Jim Hall,

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, Joe Williams,

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, and

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. He has been a featured performer at the

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for many years, serving as a member of the W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars with guitarist

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, guitarist Tom Wolfe, pianist and vocalist

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, pianist and vocalist Ray Reach, and drummer Chuck Redd. He was featured on

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's 1975 album ''

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'' and played talking drum on the song "Crown of Creation" by

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. Beginning in 2000, he taught at

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in New Jersey. Goodwin is the son of

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, announcer and actor on the

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radio program and ''

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'' on television.

Discography

As leader

* ''Solar Energy'' (1981) * ''Plays Cole Porter'' (1988) * ''No Method'' (

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, 1989) * ''Three's a Crowd'' (TCB, 1994) * ''Raise Four'' (Vectordisc 2014) * ''Live at the Lafayette Bar'' (Vectordisc 2017) * ''Trio'' with Jon Ballantyne and Evan Gregor (Vectordisc 2019)

As sideman

With

*''Parallels (Chesky Records, 2000) With

* '' I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin''' (Atlantic, 1968) With

* ''

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'' (Atlantic, 1969) * '' Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett'' (Atlantic, 1971) * '' Live in Tokyo'' (Atlantic, 1971) * '' Paris Encounter'' (Atlantic, 1972) with

Stéphane Grappelli Stéphane Grappelli (; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997, born Stefano Grappelli) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the firs ...

''With

Hal Galper Harold Galper (born April 18, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator, and writer. Biography He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Galper studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz wh ...

* ''

Wild Bird ''Wild Bird'' is an album by American pianist Hal Galper released on the Mainstream Records, Mainstream label in 1972.Inner Journey'' (Mainstream, 1973) With Paul Horn * '' Cycle'' (RCA Victor, 1965) * ''

Here's That Rainy Day "Here's That Rainy Day" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke that was published in 1953. It was introduced by Dolores Gray in the Broadway musical '' Carnival in Flanders''. Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra ...

'' (RCA Victor, 1966) * ''

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'' (RCA Victor, 1966) With Bill Plummer * ''Cosmic Brotherhood'' (Impulse!, 1968) With

Gábor Szabó Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music. Early years Szabó was born in Budapest, Hungary. He began playing guitar at the age ...

* ''

More Sorcery ''More Sorcery'' is a live album by Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1967 in Boston and at the Monterey Jazz Festival for the Impulse! label.

'' (Impulse!, 1967) With Anthony Ortega * '' New Dance'' (hatOLOGY, recorded 1967)

As producer

With Phil Woods * '' Phil Woods/Lew Tabackin'' (Omnisound, 1980) * ''More Live'' (Adelphi, 1982) * ''At the Vanguard'' (Antilles, 1983) * '' Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet'' (Timeless, 1986) * ''Flowers for Hodges'' (Concord, 1991) * ''Astor & Elis'' (Chesky, 1996) * ''Mile High Jazz'' (Concord, 1996) * ''Live at the Deer Head Inn'' (Deer Head Records, 2015)

References

External links

Bill Goodwin bio at Phil Wood's website
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