Phat Tracks

About The Program

Grammy winning composer Gordon Goodwin presents Phat Tracks with Gordon Goodwin, a two-hour tour through a wide range of jazz styles and concepts. Gordon’s experience and musical understanding allow him to give his listeners rare look behind the curtain to see what makes this music so special. The show’s musical palette ranges from swing to latin to funk to orchestral, and occasionally includes spoken comments from the artists themselves.

Phat Tracks with Gordon Goodwin airs on KSDS, Saturdays from 1:00 -3:00 pm PST.

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Hi gang, My name is Gordon Goodwin, host of Phat Tracks, and, believe it or not, I'm in a movie! It's called 'Knights of Swing.'

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Here are a few CD selections featured most recently:



Here are the 30 most recent tracks played on this show:

November 23rd at 2 PM Hour
2:58 PM Living For the City “Dirty Loops” — Beagle BUY
2:44 PM Chick Corea & London Philharmonic Orchestra “Piano Concerto No. 1 ” — Corea: Spain & Piano Concerto No. 1 BUY
2:36 PM Bob Mintzer & WDR BIG BAND “N/A” — Hit and Run BUY
2:30 PM Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band “Through The Fire” — The Reset BUY
2:24 PM Pat Metheny “Bright Size Life ” — Side-eye NYC (V1. IV) BUY
2:19 PM Jacob Collier, John Legend & Tori Kelly “Bridge Over Troubled Water” — Djesse Vol 4 BUY
2:12 PM Duke Ellington “Jeep's Blue (Live)” — Ellington at Newport 1956 BUY
2:06 PM James Morrison & Marian Petrescu “My Romance” — A Fine Bromance BUY
2:02 PM Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band “It's All Right With Me” — XXL BUY
November 23rd at 1 PM Hour
1:51 PM Hubert Laws “Pensativa” — Wild Flower BUY
1:45 PM Bob Mintzer & New York Voices “The Way You Look Tonight” — Meeting of Minds BUY
1:37 PM Troy Roberts “Solar Panels” — Green Lights [Explicit] BUY
1:30 PM Jazzmedia Horn “Happy Livin'” — Messages BUY
1:24 PM Oscar Peterson Trio “Daahond (Live)” — The Trio Live From Chicago BUY
1:17 PM The Quincy Jones- Sammy Nestico Orchestra “No Time Like The Present ” — Basie & Beyond BUY
1:13 PM Shorty Rogers “If I Only Had A Brain” — The Wizard Of Oz And Other Harold Arlen Songs BUY
1:09 PM Shorty Rogers “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead ” — The Wizard Of Oz And Other Harold Arlen Songs BUY
November 2nd at 2 PM Hour
2:57 PM Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band “Watermelon Man” — Act Your Age BUY
2:53 PM Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie “Honeysuckle Rose” — Ella and Basie BUY
2:47 PM The Stanley Clarke Trio With Hiromi & Lenny White “Isotope” — Jazz In The Garden BUY
2:42 PM Mohini Dey “Kick'B'ass” — MOHINI DEY BUY
2:36 PM Oliver Nelson “Miss Fine” — The Argo, Verve And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions BUY
2:30 PM Nathan East “Shadow (feat. Chick Corea)” — Reverence BUY
2:25 PM Samara Joy “You Stepped Out Of A Dream(Studio Version)” — N/A BUY
2:17 PM Bela Fleck and the Flecktones “Stomping Grounds(Live)” — Live Art BUY
2:08 PM Hubert Laws “The Rite Of Spring” — Rite Of Spring BUY
November 2nd at 1 PM Hour
1:56 PM Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band “Cannonball Run ” — The Gordian Knot BUY
1:49 PM Jim Beard “Pumpkin Fat” — Lost At the Carnival BUY
1:44 PM Alexa Tarantino/ Dariusz Terefenko “Line Up ” — Crossing Paths BUY
1:36 PM Wynton Marsalis “Knozz-Moe-King” — Think Of One... BUY

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