Denney Goodhew

Adjunct Instructor, Woodwinds, Improvisation

Multi–instrumentalist, composer, and educator Denney Goodhew has traveled the globe teaching, performing, and recording. He has performed and/or recorded with Charlie Haden, Gary Peacock, Marc Johnson, Ralph Towner, Etta James, Big Joe Turner, Robert Cray, Robben Ford, Albert King, The Temptations, The Dells, Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Art Lande, Wayne Horvitz, Composers and Improvisers Orchestra, International Creative Music Orchestra, New York Composers Orchestra West, and Soundgarden. He has toured throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, Poland, Norway, Germany, Israel, and Taiwan, and he can be heard on the CBS, Sony, Elektra, Traumton, hepJazz, and ECM labels.

Goodhew served as Professor of Saxophone and Music Science at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany from 1993 until 1998. He also served as a designer and consultant for Claude Lakey Mouthpieces (1988–93) and since 1980 has composed over forty pieces for CurrentRutledge 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).