John Goodwin offers a wide range of favorites and standards for any occasion. Playing sax and flute he uses professional backing tracks from a simple guitar or piano accompaniment to a full orchestra to complete the sound. He is also open to unaccompanied solo performance for special circumstances or preferences. Accordingly, his rates are quite reasonable but without sacrificing the sound you expect. Effortless Elegance is the result. Call, text, or email John to get the party started!
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Ks
February 21, 2024John is a very talented musician! He has a great set-up of equipment and instruments and a wide range of music and genres.
Hired as: Saxophone Player
Price range: $100 - $600 depending on circumstances
Languages: English
Gig length: 50 - 240 minutes
John performs with a professional sound system that provides a polished background for his unique and novel expression of familiar melodies and lyrics and also smooth original solos on sax and flute. He is sensitive to the needs of their audience and adjust from being the center of attention in some parts of the show to providing pleasing background music for guests' conversations to be heard. For shorter events, he will not take breaks, but when the show is longer than an hour and a half, hourly 10-minute breaks are necessary.
John Goodwin has been playing saxophone and flute for 50 years, and has always had an attraction to jazz, though he was classically trained in saxophone performance in college. His other major was chemistry and he has been teaching college chemistry since 1989. Over the years he has shared the stage with Ray Charles, and numerous jazz groups in Houston, Texas and Conway, South Carolina. His most recent partnership was with bassist Mike Hall in the Hi Lo Duo which played gigs from Charleston to Wilmington, but mostly in the Grand Strand.
If a professional sound system is not available for your event, then John will include a PA system with microphones. Electrical outlets are needed for the sound system and computer that provide the backing tracks.
If stage lighting is not available but desired, John will provide basic lighting.
A typical set list is open to change from one gig to the next:
Late in the Evening
Route 66
Morning Dance
What a wonderful world
Can't help falling in love with you
Crazy
Wave
Baker Street
My Foolish Heart
Tequilla
Prominent jazz and popular musicians over the decades from the 40s through today inspire John. Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Spiro Gyra, Nora Johnes, Esparanza Spaulding are some of John's influences.
Electrical Outlets unless the outdoor event does not require backing tracks, for example for a beach wedding.
Saxophone Player
