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  • The Dick Goodwin Quintet: The Quintet has eleven music degrees and years of university and public school teaching experience between them. The group has often appeared with area orchestras and at other cultural events and festivals in the Southeast. The Dick Goodwin Quintet began touring in Latin America for the US State Department in the early 70's, has made a dozen trips abroad, and has given hundreds of concerts in the US.
  • The Dick Goodwin Big Band: has performed at major social events in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia (including SC Governor Riley's inaugural celebration concert with Dizzy Gillespie) and has been featured in concert with area orchestras. The players are Jim Hall (drums), Dwight Spencer (guitar), Terry Trentham (bass), Doug Graham (clarinet and saxophones), Kevin Jones (saxophones and trombone), Charlie Polk and Dave Allison (trumpets), Bruce Clark, Ashley Fleshman, and Ed Craft (trombones), and John Wilkinson and Kristi Hood (vocalists). Dick and members of the band have played with such notables as Marian McPartland, Ray Price, Bob Hope, Billy Eckstein, Maurice Williams (Zodiacs), Marvin Stamm, Bill Watrous, Jack Benny, the Platters, Cab Calloway, and Natalie Cole,. They also perform regularly with the SC Philharmonic, the USC Conductors Institute Orchestra, and the Palmetto Brass. Almost all are (or have been) music educators.