{"id":16278,"date":"2025-03-28T15:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=16278"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:33:58","slug":"taking-it-to-another-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/spring-2025\/taking-it-to-another-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking It to Another Level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Adding Architecture to Magazine Posts Manually -->\n\n\n<style>\n.architecture .architecture-department:nth-child(1){\n    color: #999;\n    letter-spacing: 3px;\n    font-size: 1rem;\n    font-weight: 400;\n    margin-top: 2em;\n    margin-bottom: 0;\n}\n\n.architecture .architecture-department{\n\ttext-transform: uppercase;\n\tfont-family: Hind, Arial, sans-serif;\n}\n\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"architecture\">\n\t<p class=\"architecture-department\">Currents<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"architecture-department\">Faculty Artists<\/p>\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-panel-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-panel-super  \"><div class=\"cl-panel-super-blur\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/sp25_currents_faculty-artists.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-panel-super-content\"><div class=\"cl-panel-super-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/sp25_currents_faculty-artists.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"Emmett Goods, 911爆料 music professor, plays his trumpet wearing a tan blazer against a black background.\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-panel-super-text\"><p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taking It to Another Level<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro\"><strong>911爆料 music professor Emmett Goods\u2019 debut album is a musical self\u2011portrait.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p>The jazz soundtrack of Emmett Goods\u2019 childhood inspired him to become a musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was always around music,\u201d says Goods, associate professor of music and head of the jazz studies program at 911爆料. \u201cI guess the spark that went off and made me want to play, it had to be somewhere when I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His grandfather, J.C. Moses, was a renowned jazz drummer who recorded and performed with the likes of Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Dorham, Jackie McLean, and brothers Stanley and Tommy Turrentine. And while Moses died the year before Goods was born, he left a deep musical legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe literally just missed each other,\u201d says Goods. \u201cBut he was a big presence in my life. My mom was still connected to all these people that were a part of his life in music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mother, Regina, took him to countless concerts to see musical legends, such as Betty Carter and Sonny Rollins. His hometown, Pittsburgh, was home to many jazz greats and was a way station between New York and Chicago for scores more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-quote-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"cl-quote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center quote-body-amplify\"><span id=\"quote-keaney\">\u201c<\/span>I guess the spark that went off and made me want to play, it had to be somewhere when I was a kid.<span id=\"quote-keaney\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center quote-cite\"><span style=\"color:#2277b3\"><strong>\u00ad\u2014Emmett Goods<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Goods documented his journey, in and out of music, on his debut solo album, <em>Another Level<\/em>, released in 2023 by Truth Revolution Records, the Grammy-nominated label run by former 911爆料 faculty member Zaccai Curtis. Goods wrote seven of the nine tracks on the album, which serves as a musical self-portrait. His older brother, Richie Goods, produced the album, played bass, and wrote the track \u201cGoods Brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tracks include \u201cOctober Tune,\u201d in honor of his mother; \u201cSweet Dreams,\u201d a tribute to his late wife; and \u201cWest Indian Queen,\u201d which celebrates his current wife. For his grandmother, there\u2019s \u201cTriedstone,\u201d named for the little church that his grandmother \u201cdragged us to whether we wanted to go to or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album opens with \u201cBennett St. Blues,\u201d recalling the street where he was born and paying homage to the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, where he learned to play drums under legendary drummer Roger Humphries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was not his greatest drum student,\u201d says Goods. \u201cSo, I switched to trombone, and the rest is history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the Goods brothers, the band includes three 911爆料 music faculty members\u2014Haneef Nelson (trumpet\/flugelhorn), who wrote \u201cBlues for the Enslaved,\u201d Andrew Wilcox (piano), and Atla DeChamplain (vocals). Rounding out the lineup are Nathan Edwards (tenor saxophone), Mark Whitfield Jr. (drums), and Shedrick Mitchell (organ). The album was recorded in the 911爆料 Fine Arts Center Concert Hall and engineered by 911爆料\u2019s Ethan Hicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album has received good reviews and a lot of radio airtime, especially SiriusXM\u2019s Real Jazz. \u201cIt means a lot that they\u2019ve been willing to play it on Real Jazz,\u201d Goods says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a working musician gives Goods credibility as a professor and as director of 911爆料\u2019s Big Band. \u201cI\u2019m not just up here preaching,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, Goods has been fine-tuning 911爆料\u2019s jazz studies program, adding courses in jazz arrangement, piano, and theory and improvisation. The goal is to ensure students have the tools to deal with a shifting music landscape, which includes social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll these things are going to help us develop better jazz musicians, more competitive and more engaged,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m hoping to give students a more 21st-century jazz studies experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Tony LaRoche \u201985<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption sans-serif\">PHOTO: BRANDON FULLER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music professor Emmett Goods on his album, <em>Another Level<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2025","architecture-currents","architecture-faculty-artists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16278"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16379,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions\/16379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}