Summer Faculty

David “Goody” Goodrich was born and raised in the Washington D.C. suburb Bowie Maryland, David Goodrich (a.k.a. Goody) began playing music at the age of two on a drum set given to him by a neighbor. Picking up guitar in junior high, he spent his teenage afternoons jamming with friends and soon found himself in a variety of bands, gigging professionally in Annapolis and D.C. clubs before he was old enough to get into them.  Earning a scholarship to Boston's Berklee School of Music in 1985, Goody moved to Boston, found himself studying with jazz greats Joe Henderson and Pat Metheny, and quickly began laying the foundation for his own innovative musical style. Integrating jazz and improvisation with folk and world music, Goody's approach to composing, playing, and performing is based on years of listening and training, along with a carefully honed sense of intuition. Specializing in stringed instruments (acoustic, electric, Hawaiian, steel & slide guitars, mandolin, mandocaster, piano), he has been an integral part of numerous jazz, rock, and acoustic ensembles. As a member of the influential rock band Groovasaurus from 1991-1998, Goody and his bandmates helped define the resurgent Boston music scene of the '90s, receiving consecutive Boston Music Awards and Best of Boston accolades.  When Groovasaurus called it quits, Goody began collaborating with an extraordinary array of today’s best independent singer/songwriters as an accompanist and producer. He has produced recordings for artists such as Chris Smither, Peter Mulvey, Jeffrey Foucault, Rose Polenzani, The Amity Front, and Moses Atwood. He appears on over 75 recordings, including the Grammy-nominated Avalon Blues, and has performed internationally on hundreds of stages.

Scott Mullett has played and toured with some of the best big bands in the world, including those of Woody Herman and Artie Shaw. He was drafted into Woody’s band after a few semesters’ study at Berklee College, where he had had been awarded a full scholarship at the age of 17. Mullett has been a working musician ever since, and is now a first-call saxophone player for the greater Boston area, doing commercial studio sessions, and performing regularly with the White Heat Swing Orchestra and the C-Jammers. They even invite him back to teach an occasional saxophone clinic at Berklee! When he came back to the area in the late ‘90s due to family concerns, he was fresh from three years’ tenure as Musical Director for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and was probably surprised to find himself settling down in the same town where he’d grown up. Mullett currently resides in Swanzey and draws students from around the tri-state area for private instruction. He is also founder and director of the Keene Jazz Orchestra, now in its sixth year.

Doug Raneri has been a professional musician for thirty-six years.He has studied privately with Fred Buda, Alan Dawson, Bob Gullotti, Gary Chaffee, and Bob Moses as well as attending the New England Conservatory of Music as a jazz performance major. He has performed with Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Yusef Lateef, Milcho Leviev, Roberto Miranda and many others within a diversity of musical genres. Being comfortable in many styles of music affords Doug the opportunity to share his knowledge with a wide range of students and performers.

Jamie Macdonald is known in the New England-area as a professional, musical, and eclectic bassist. Additionally, his students consider him to be a hardworking, challenging, and eye-opening teacher. Though Macdonald’s degree was conferred over ten years ago, his studies have continued. Jamie Macdonald refers to himself as a “student of music.” In other words, he feels music offers an endless number of lessons, and an endless number of opportunities for growth. He has studied privately with Mike Formanek, Cameron Brown, Don Baldini, and Harvey Schwartz.