Bill Goodwin (jazz drummer)


Bill Goodwin 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, Art Pepper, Paul Horn, Frank Rosolino, Bud Shank, George Shearing, and Gabor Szabo.
Joining the performing ensemble of vibraphonist Gary Burton brought him to the East Coast in 1969. After three years with Burton, Goodwin settled in the Pocono Mountains and worked in hotels and resorts. In 1974, he became a founding member of the Phil Woods Quartet. He worked with Woods for forty years as a drummer and record producer, winning three Grammy Awards.
Goodwin has performed with Bill Evans, Lee Konitz Dexter Gordon, Jim Hall, Bobby Hutcherson, June Christy, Joe Williams, Tony Bennett, Mose Allison, and The Manhattan Transfer. He has been a featured performer at the W. C. Handy Music Festival for many years, serving as a member of the W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars with guitarist Mundell Lowe, guitarist Tom Wolfe, pianist and vocalist Johnny O'Neal, pianist and vocalist Ray Reach, and drummer Chuck Redd.
He was featured on Tom Waits's 1975 album Nighthawks at the Diner and played talking drum on the song "Crown of Creation" by Jefferson Airplane.
Beginning in 2000, Goodwin has taught at William Paterson University in New Jersey.
He currently leads a trio which features Jon Ballantyne on piano and Evan Gregor on bass, performing often in New York at jazz clubs such as Mezzrow and Smalls, as well as other club and concert venues on the East Coast. In late-2023, the trio recorded a follow-up to their acclaimed 2019 release "Trio", which will be released in the summer of 2024.
Goodwin is the son of Bill Goodwin, announcer and actor on the Burns and Allen radio program and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television.

Discography

As leader

Solar Energy Plays Cole Porter No Method Three's a Crowd Raise Four Live at the Lafayette Bar Trio with Jon Ballantyne and Evan Gregor

As sideman

With Gary BurtonThrob Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett Live in Tokyo Paris Encounter with Stéphane Grappelli
With Hal GalperWild Bird Inner Journey
With Paul HornCycle Here's That Rainy Day Monday, Monday
With others

As producer

With Phil WoodsPhil Woods/Lew Tabackin More Live At the Vanguard Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet Flowers for Hodges At the Deer Head Inn, Keith Jarrett Astor & Elis Mile High Jazz
  • ''Live at the Deer Head Inn''