Richie Goods

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Richie Goods (born February 10, 1969 ) is an American jazz and fusion musician ( double bass , electric bass , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Goods grew up in Pittsburgh and played early on in parishes and clubs while attending Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts High School . After graduating from school, he studied in the jazz program of the Berklee College of Music ; he then moved to New York City, where he had further lessons from Ron Carter and Ray Brown . He worked from the early 1990s a. a. nine years with Mulgrew Miller , with whom the first recordings were made ( With Our Own Eyes , 1993, with Tony Reedus ), also with Milt Jackson , Stanley Turrentine , DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince , Christina Aguilera , Norman Simmons , Eddie Allen , Russell Malone , Vincent Herring , Antonio Hart , Don Braden , Helen Sung , Masahiro Nakagawa , Anthony Wonsey , Louis Hayes and with Erich Kunzel & The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

Goods also worked as a companion for vocalists Heidi Martin , Vanessa Rubin , Roseanna Vitro , Pamela Luss , Simone Kopmajer , Gillian Margot and The Manhattan Transfer . With his fusion band, which included Helen Sung, Jeff Lockhart and drummer Mike Clark, he recorded the live album Richie Goods & Nuclear Fusion: Live at the Zinc Bar in 2007 . The following year, the trio production Kramer / Goods / Butman was created with Daniel Kramer and Oleg Butman . In 2017 he released the album Three Rivers with his band Nuclear Fusion .

As a session musician, he has also worked on productions by Patti Austin , Whitney Houston , Alicia Keys and Common ; He toured with Chris Botti for five years . Goods currently plays in the Geoffrey Keezer Quartet; in Switzerland he performed with Dani Felber . In the field of jazz he was involved in 48 recording sessions between 1993 and 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from All About Jazz
  2. Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  3. Richie Goods. Smalls, December 31, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  4. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 24, 2018)