Cherokee High School hosted a Gordon Goodwin Concert in the Lenape Regional High School District Performing Arts Center in 2007. Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band performs their song "Hunting Wabbits."
Haha!! Yes!! That was me and my friends from going crazy in the beginning. I love Gordon's reaction: he turns his head like, "What the ... ????" Wow, they are unreal man! That was such an amazing show!! Eric Marienthal, YOU ROCK!!
If you watch the scroll/replay bar as you seek through the vid you'll see that this is the most replayed part of the video. As a trumpet player who did this song with my high school band on 3rd, even our lead guy who had the high G for the end of Count Bubba (which we also played) said Wayne is playing notes from other planets 😆
He's so awesome, he shot a bullet from his finger and struck a small, silver triangle less than a diameter in thickness in a fairly dark room from over 30 feet away at the end.
such an amazing composition! i recently purchased a sax and bought the charts for this song and others and its a great feeling being able to play along with these cats even tho its just a cd hahaha.
I love this band. If you look at the cover of the Hunting Wabbits chart, it shows Gordon Goodwin leaping into the air while conducting. I've always found that ridiculous, but awesome.
Idk if it's just me but the audio quality is surprisingly good for a video this old, and ofc the performance itself is fabulous! Looking forward to playing this piece in my HS jazz band next year.
Guys, Sal Lozano is an amazing woodwind player! He can play multiple instruments as if hes dedicated a full life time to each one! He is also an amazingly nice guy, soon as you construct a solo like his ill actually aknowledge your critisism.
Omg... That alto soloist knows how to play VERY DAMN HIGH notes... Its not supposed to be possible on the alto sax but i guess it is!! Im an alto saxophonist myself and would like to know how to plays those notes please!! Reply if you do know how!!!! Thx
Ben Urg you don't change your embrochure, only you're throat and tongue. it takes practice. you can technically hit all those altissimo notes with just 1 button down
ha no joke. we're playing this and I cant hit that B. maybe using a bass would help. regardless he plays it like it's nothing. Watch "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" if you really want to see him dominate.
Wats strange to me is that the modern big band is about 20 or 30 people but this year in my schools jazz band we have about 40 and last years was almost 70
The gr. 8s last year at my school were 60, my year started at 50 and now in gr. 11 we have 28. High schools cant turn kids away for band (our senior concert bands 110!) so they end up with a lot of certain instruments and generally overpopulation. but some schools have 12 person bands with no bones! So really we got it pretty good.
Perhaps you should get in touch with Sal Lozano via his web site and offer to show him how it should be done? I presume Gordon's waiting until he's rich enough to be able to afford you. Eric's probably quaking in his boots too..............
what do you mean? that doesn't make any sense, the song is over when the song is over, how can it be over when the swing seciton starts. it's swing because that's the solo section, and then it goes on from there.
Except most jazz listeners know very little about jazz as an art form The best way to gain an understanding of jazz is to play it. Either that or hang around jazz musicians 24/7
The classical style at the beginning is neat but after a while it gets boring. I think the swing section adds a good color to it. The recording definitely comes off better with the trombone solo.
just because he played clashing notes in the start of his solo does not mean at all that he has no sense of the chord changes he moves through the chords flawlessly in the later part of the solo. his timing is impeccable. once again he is creating tension at the start of his solo by playing notes that clash with the beat. you obviously don't understand jazz very well
ONLY 4 TRUMPETS AND 5 SAXES? You SHOULD only have 4 trumpets and 5 saxes. And 4 trombones. not seven. big band charts aren't written with those numbers in mind. its 4, 4, and 5. theres no need for more and no excuse for any less!
To stay idiomatic to the big band genre, you're not going to get away with having a regular group with anything much different from 4 plus or minus one in the brass sections and 5 saxes. Doubling more than one part (and even this can be pushing it) that isn't scored to be doubled is not doing the music justice.
