Goodie Mob

To prevent people from assuming that the "monkey" mentioned in the album's title might be a reference to former member Cee-Lo, the current members have stated that it is actually more or less a reference to the industry (Goodie Mob was dropped from Arista after lackluster sales of their commercial effort World Party) and truly believe that this album will pick up where Still Standing left off. A good source for information on Fletcher Henderson is The Fletcher Henderson Story a 3 CD Box Set sampling Henderson's music with extensive liner notes by jazz scholar Frank Diggs. Despite the group's woes as performers and as people, their new album One Monkey Don't Stop No Show was released in June, without Cee-Lo. He died in New York City. His debut single, "Steppin' Out" featured southern R&B newcomer, Sleepy Brown, on the chorus and received some radio and video airplay. Henderson suffered a stroke in 1950 resulting in partial paralysis that ended his days as a pianist. Other than Cee-Lo's commercial achievements, Big Gipp is the only Goodie Mobb member who achieved some notoriety as a soloist. He reformed bands of his own several times in the 1940s, toured with Ethel Waters again in 1948 - 1949.

The solo array was rounded out by the vet, Big Gipp's 2003 Mutant Mind Frame. In 1939 he disbanded his own band and joined Goodman's, first as both pianist and arranger and then working full time as arranger. Next, Khujo Goodie, despite a near fatal car crash that cost him a leg, released Man Not The Dog. Many of Goodman's hits from the swing music were arranged by Henderson for his own band in the late 20s and early 30s. T-Mo started the trend with his 2000 album, T-Mo 2 The Fullest; this was followed by Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect Imperfections. Since he needed new charts every week for the show, his friend John Hammond suggested that he purchase some Jazz charts from Henderson. Cee-Lo was not the first and definitely not the last member of the group to try his hand at a solo career. In 1934, Goodman's Orchestra was selected as a house band for the "Let's Dance" radio program.

His 2003 single "I'll Be Around" (featuring megastar producer and fellow southerner Timbaland) was a much more commercially successful song, but still maintained his idiosyncratic style. In addition to his own band he arranged for several other bands, including those of Teddy Hill, Isham Jones, and most famously, Benny Goodman. The album explored many new frontiers for hip hop, with elements of soul, jazz and pop combined with Cee-Lo's signature vocal style, positive messages and constantly changing delivery. He was well regarded as an arranger and his arrangements became influential. Group member Cee-Lo has since embarked on a solo career, releasing the critically acclaimed album Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect Imperfections in 2002, to limited commercial success. Following a serious auto accident in 1928, he seemed to lose interest in business matters, and was never known as a disciplinarian. In1999, the group released World Party, their third release. Although the band was very popular, Henderson had little success managing the band.

The album's follow-up was Still Standing, which expanded Goodie Mob's considerable fanbase just as the Dirty South broke into the mainstream with OutKast's Stankonia. He later led a band of his own that also received critical acclaim. Along with OutKast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzak, it put Atlanta on the hip-hop map. Beginning in the early 1930s, Fletcher's piano-playing younger brother, Horace Henderson (11/22/1904-1989) contributed to the arrangements of the band. Based out of Atlanta, Goodie Mob's debut, Soul Food (1995) was critically acclaimed. Reed men Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Benny Carter and Chu Berry also were in and out of Fletcher's band. Goodie Mob is one of the premiere hip hop acts to come out of the Dirty South. At one time or another, in addition to Armstrong, the band featured Henry "Red" Allen, Joe Smith, Rex Stewart, Tommy Ladnier and Roy Eldridge on trumpet.

Henderson's band also boasted the formidable arranging talents of Don Redman. For a time his ideas of arrangement were heavily influenced by those of Paul Whiteman, but when Louis Armstrong joined his orchestra in 1924 Henderson realized there could be a much richer potential for jazz band orchestration. In 1922 he formed his own band, which was resident first at the Club Alabam then at the Roseland, and quickly became known as the best "Colored" band in New York. His success in music made him forget about a career in chemistry.

He also lead the band accompanying singer Ethel Waters. He also worked at Black Swan Records as music director and pianist. He worked for the Pace-Handy music company as a song demonstrator. After graduation, he moved to New York City to attend Columbia University for a master's degree in chemistry.

He attend Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1920. His father was a principal and his mother taught piano. Henderson was born in Cuthbert, Georgia. Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. (December 18, 1897 - December 28, 1952) was an African American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing music.