Will Goble Group
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"Preview of 3.24.06 Show"

Jazzed up

OK, people, listen up. I know I use the phrase "world-class jazz" a lot, and it's never an exaggeration in this city so chock-full of fine players. But when I say that Saturday's double-header at Paradigm is "world-class," it's because "universal-class" sounds so clunky. The lineup for both sets is mind-boggling. There's an early show by a combo that includes Etienne Charles on trumpet, Leon Anderson on drums, Rodney Jordan on bass and Marcus Roberts on piano, followed by an ensemble featuring Will Goble on bass, David Potter on drums, Marcus Roberts and Nick Rosen on piano, Etienne Charles on trumpet and Miguel Alvarado on tenor sax. In more populated, hip urban areas, you'd expect to pay top-dollar for such star-power. Here in Tallahassee, the price of admission is $3. That's not a misprint. Get there early to claim your seat.

-K. Schardl
Read it at Tallahassee.com-
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060324/COLUMNIST09/603240319/1005/ENT - Tallahassee Democrat


"The Tallahassee Stomp"

Thank You to everyone who participated in the Seminole Stomp !! It was an awesome Swing weekend in Tallahassee with Solomon Douglas and Rebecca Strickland teaching. We had great dancers from Gainesville, Pensacola, and as far away as south Florida visit our scene to complete the fun, the Will Goble Quintet Friday night was incredible, and I think it is agreed that Solomon and Rebecca and the the great music challenged us all to new levels. Thank you again- and keep posted for our next workshop!

-TallySwing.com - Tally Swing


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Tracks available for streaming/download at www.myspace.com/willgoblemusic

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I grew up in Durham, North Carolina, playing with rock bands since I was 11 years old. It seems like I was raised in bars, gradually damaging my hearing. Later in my teenage years, I was introduced to jazz and the upright bass. When I graduated from high school, I moved down to Tallahassee, FL to study jazz at FSU. Here, I met the majority of the musicians I play with today as a 22 year old college grad. We enjoy a friendly musical community, playing in such out-of-the-way places as hookah bars, Irish pubs, discos, law firms, and when the stars align, venues that like to sometimes pose as Jazz clubs. Since I’ve been in Talle, I have studied with the pianist Marcus Roberts and bassist Rodney Jordan, along with Kevin Bales, Leon Anderson, and others. I was a member of the FSU jazz group that performed at the 2005 IAJE conference in Long beach, CA, the new Lincoln Center facility in NYC, and the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag, Holland. Other notable performances include the Jazz at the Gray series in Tallahassee with the Marcus Roberts trio, and an engagement with the Marcus Roberts Quartet in Hampton, VA (April 2005, and April 2006, respectively). I have also been fortunate enough to perform with Jason Marsalis, Philip Harper, Stephen Riley, Marcus Printup, Kevin Bales, Inga Swearingen, Scotty Barnhart, Leon Anderson, and others in and around the southeast and New Orleans. In December of 2005, I performed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center with the David Guidi Quartet as a part of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Series. Here in Tallahassee, I lead groups and freelance as a sideman around the area.

Our influences include John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Branford Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Wynton Marsalis, David Sanchez, Ray Charles, Ribet Johnson, Soon House, Sidney Bechet, Wayne Shorter, Viento De Agua, Joe Lovano, Miguel Zenon, Robert Hurst, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Letser Young, and plenty more.