Скачать или смотреть Video Clip 21, Fred Goodnight & Friends, March 10, 2019

Drummer and percussionist Fred Goodnight performed Sunday, March 10th, 2019 to a packed house at the Rockledge Country Club for the monthly Space Coast Jazz Society concert. He was joined by Mike Telesmanick on the keyboard, Dan Wilborn on sax, Dexter Wilborn on bass.

Fred is well known for his nine-year gig at Dijon’s Restaurant in Melbourne Beach. Currently, he plays at local venues, churches and special events. As Board member of the Space Coast Jazz Society, and through his music activities, Goodnight is also a teacher and mentor to young jazz musicians throughout Brevard.

He has played at high profile events such as for the Statue of Liberty anniversary at Madison Square Garden, music festivals in Switzerland and Europe and as part of the opening act for Ray Charles.

Goodnight studied music theory at Akron University, the US Navy School of Music and, as an enlisted marine, at the Field Music School. He served in the Pacific Drum and Bugle Corp as part of the Fleet Marine Force where he toured Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Alaska and California, sharing the sound of jazz and other genres of music with audiences from school children to the Japanese Emperor and his court.

Goodnight’s teachers included the renowned jazz artist Max Roach, drummer and recording artist Baba Olantungi of Nigeria, Brazilian percussionist and recording artist Nana Vasconselors, workshop facilitator and percussionist Arthur Hull and percussionist Tony Vacca. Early in life he was influenced by the likes of James Moody (with whom he later shared the stage). www.SpaceCoastJazzSociety.org
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The Space Coast Jazz Society hosts monthly live jazz music by a variety of different bands each month at the Rockledge Country Club. We also provide jazz workshops and award jazz scholarships for Brevard County students.