“Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and educator Denny Goodhew, born on April 1, 1952 in Walla Walla, Washington, has traveled the globe teaching, performing, and recording.  He has performed and/or recorded over 50 CDs with Charlie Haden, Gary Peacock, Buster Williams, Dave Holland, Marc Johnson, Jimmy Garrison, Ralph Towner, Oregon, Etta James, Big Joe Turner, Albert King, Robert Cray, Ernestine Anderson, Johnny Mathis, Lou Rawls, The Temptations, Buddy Miles, The Dells, Bill Frisell, Gil Evans, Jack DeJohnette, Adam Nussbaum, Ed Blackwell, Andrew Cyrille, Mike Clark, Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Art Lande, The Reputations, Composer’s and Improviser’s Orchestra, the International Creative Music Orchestra, First Avenue, the New York Composers Orchestra West, John Cage and Soundgarden (among others), playing in Japan, Poland, Norway, Germany, Israel, Canada and Taiwan. Goodhew served as Professor of Saxophone and Music Science at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin from 1993 until 1999.  During his tenure in Berlin he studied the Asian Healing Art, Reiki, receiving the Reiki Master/Teaching Degree. Since his return stateside, he has taught at Cornish College of the Arts.

“Mr. Goodhew has served as a designer and consultant for Claude Lakey Mouthpieces (1988-93) and has composed more than forty pieces for Current Rutledge Productions.  He has been the recipient of a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” award in DownBeat magazine’s critics’ poll (1972), and five Earshot Jazz Golden Ear awards, including “Best Instrumentalist” (1990-93) and “Best Electric Jazz Group” (Towner/Goodhew duo, 1990) as well as many composition commissions.

“Recent and current projects include composing and conducting “New Moon Suite,” a forty-minute orchestral Big Band piece presented at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA; the Qhromatics, a sextet for which Mr. Goodhew composed all the music and played saxophone, alto flute, piano and percussion; percussion with the impromptu group Synthesis; piano and percussion with the dynamic improvisation trio Mouth of Gravity. “

(This article quoted from denneygoodhew.com)

Here is a link to Denny Goodhew playing saxophone on a 2008 Jerry Granelli record with Charlie Haden and Robben Ford:

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