Dick Goodwin
aka Gordon "Dick " Goodwin
Groups available for bookings
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
The 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), 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 performed with such notables as Ray Charles, Bob Hope, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, Johnny Mathis, the Spinners, the Platters, the Temptations, the Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller orchestras, Henry Mancini, Gregory Hines, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, and the touring company for the broadway show "Chicago."
"Bootleg" Recordings of the Big Band Live
Smaller Groups,
Special Groups,
Wedding Bands,
Cocktail Pianist,
Accompaniment for Choirs.
This is Dick Goodwin's specialty. Contact us.
Updated: August 16, 2010
Live Music—
Arranger, Composer & Producer
Upcoming Gigs
September 12
DG Quintet morning service at St. Martin’s in the Field (Columbia) A new jazz mass by Goodwin
September 30
Dick Goodwin Big Band concert at the Kershaw County Fine Arts Center at 7:00 –
10 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020
(803) 425-7676
October 15
Dick Goodwin Big Band in Evans, GA – details to follow
November 5
Dick Goodwin Big Band for the USC Alumni Assoc homecoming dance
November 21
Jjazz service at Saxe Gotha Presbyterian in Lexington
November 26
Dick Goodwin Big Band for the Augusta Symphony Cotillion
December 31
Dick Goodwin Big Band concert at the Newberry Opera House
(803) 276-5179
(hotel/restaurant packages available)
February 13
Dick Goodwin Big Band Valentines Ball for the SC Philharmonic
8:30
Embassy Suites
March 31 (2011)
Dick Goodwin Big Band concert in Hartsville-Coker Community Concert Series
May 7
Dick Goodwin Big Band for Social Inc. in Augusta, GA
