OUR MUSIC:
FEEL- is what our original music is about ...we make people
feel like we've taken them somewhere... inside and out.
Critics say we're Hot AC /Avant-jazz with progressive pop
mixed in...David Grey meets Steely Dan - we set the VIBE!
In the studio or through our live performances -We're about
change, not unlike Santana - U2 etc...dismantle hate with a
love vibe. Yes love and peace are not new to all of us, but, we
still have a long way to go and we'd like to reintroduce you to
that vibration of creation- PEACE!
Line-up
Robert Goodman Piano/keys Lead Vocal
Mark Nemcek Drums
Dave Rubinstein Guitar
Rick Shepherd Fretless Bass & Stand-up
PRESS RELEASES:
Homegrown: South Florida bands: Sun-Sentinel
(Tribune) Miami April 11 2008
Teaching history to high schoolers, Robert Goodman
believes learning doesn't stop when the bell rings.
When his day job ends, Goodman continues to inspire minds
by playing songs about saving the planet to audiences
around South Florida. The West Palm Beach native
entertains crowds with messages about love and peace set
to a blend of jazz, progressive rock and soul. He's backed by
his eponymously named group, the Robert Goodman Band.
Goodman's no newcomer to the global harmony groove. He
began crafting tunes about caring, sharing and healing as a
kid in the late 1960s.
"The Beatles changed me," Goodman said. "I could never
write a song that doesn't mean something. What's the point
of creating if you don't give back?"
His current band is the latest in a long musical resume that
includes studio work and solo gigs. The group features
Goodman on lead vocals and keyboards, with drummer Mark
Nemcek, guitarist Dave Rubinstein and Rick Shepherd on
fretless bass.
The band's already put out one CD, Back Home. They're
working on a second disc, Everything Is Beautiful, due out
this summer.(*Xmas2008.)
The group continues to spread what Goodman calls a
"dismantle hate with love vibe" by lending their talents to a
variety of causes, from pediatric AIDS to Doctors Without
Borders. They're also donating a song, Story, to the
documentary Death in Darfur — The Truth.
The band is helping raise funds for the film's production
costs by collecting money from downloads of the tune on
their Web site at robertgoodmanband.com.
The guys play regular gigs around town, too. Their next
show will be helping ring in the third anniversary of the
Rock, a weekly original music night held at Tobacco Road in
Miami. The party happens 8 p.m.-4 a.m. April 18, with 30
bands on four stages at 626 S. Miami Ave.; 305-374-1198 or
tobacco-road.com. (April 10, 2008)
GOLeft.TV :Award Winner Make Music For Me
2008- song "Story" placed 2nd!
See compressed HD Video @
www.goleft.tv/viewer.asp?v=876
"song about war around the Globe!"
NEWTIMES Dec.7-13 2006 broward -palm beach
Good Vibrations
By Lewis Goldberg
Ever been in a situation you've been in countless times before,
but for some reason this time it just feels different? Like the stars
are aligned so that the same old scene seems better than it ever
has? This, my friends, is what we call a vibe.
When the Robert Goodman Band takes its avant-jazz to the stage
at a local hotspot, the vibe is right. Sure, you've seen a thousand
different jazz groups at a thousand different bars, but this four-
piece progressive combo, led by a local high school history
teacher, controls the moment. They could teach us all
a thing or two about improvisation and composition. **History
repeats itself each Wednesday evening from 8 to10 p.m. when the
Robert Goodman Band provides the vibe at The Lounge (517
Clematis St., West Palm Beach). Admission is free.
**NO LONGER PLAYING THE LOUNGE...Look at our schedule page
for other dates around South Florida
Robert Goodman Band"Live On Stage" Magazine
Featured Regional Artists-Nov.2005 edtion "U2" on the cover.
Read the article "School House Rock" go to:
www.losmag.com
NBC:WPTV Ch5 2004 Hurricane KatrinaWPTV Ch5 NBC. Tim Malloy
Post Katrina" Live performs shot of "Helping Hands" Salvation
Army/ Red Cross Fund raise concert at the Lounge. 2004
Band performed original song"Helping Hands" a song about
Americans coming together in crisis and healing eachothers pain
as one nation! Plus interview.
THE PALM BEACH POST TIMES TGIF pg 21 FEB. 6th
2004 Edition by Bill Meriadeth
Historical jazz, patriotic pop: By day, Robert Goodman is a history
teacher at Palm Beach Gardens High School. By night, he turns into a
singing keyboardist, presenting historical perscpective through his lyrics
in the Robert GoodmanTrio (Band.)
With it's instrumentation (including Rick Shepherd on bass and Mark
Nemcek on drums), you might expect a jazz trio. But Goodman adds
glimpses of pop keyboard artists Elton John and Billy Joel through his
vocals, piano and synthesizers. On teh groups's new CD,"BACK HOME",
Shepherd's fretless electric bass and Nemcek's nimble drumming brings
the jazz influence to tunes like "SHOW US" & Free.
Goodman's tunes have political themes, but he isn't a stereotypically pro-
American patriot that wears blinders. On the tune "American Revolution",
he sings, "I'm an American Composer, but my composure is getting older/
tired if seeing the same old history repeat itself right in front of me."
The trio gives away a copy of "BACK HOME" to anyone who donates
$10.00 to any of the veterans' charity organizations Goodman supports,
and it isn't above having fun - it's Victory Song for the Florida Marlins
resulted in South Florida airplay after the baseball team's World Series
win last year.
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