Gordon Goodwin and Count Basie are two jazz artists who incorporated a lot of variety into their musical sound and ultimately played more than one genre of music. They played classic jazz, latin jazz,and blues, to list a few. Goodwin is known worldwide as a great composer, pianist, arranger, and saxophonist. He is mainly known for his preference of quick rock beat music. He also typically included other famous musicians in his albums, such as: saxophonists Dave Koz and Gerald Albright, bassist Marcus Miller, and the vocal group Take 5. "That's How We Roll" is Goodwin's sixth album., and the first song shares this title. The title was intended to literally show people what his band is all about.
             "That's How We Roll" is a seven minutes and seven seconds-long song, featuring extremely high trumpet parts and a long saxophone solo by Gordon Goodwin himself. The saxophone solo starts out very simple and eventually evolves into very complicated rhythms, and he builds up to an very high note held out for a few seconds with heavy vibrato.
             "Howdiz Songo?" is the second song. It has kind of a Latin jazz feel to it. It features a strong exotic trumpet solo about halfway through using growls and half valve scoops, soloing tricks used by professionals to add color to the music. "Rippin' n Runnin'" is their third song. It starts with a very idiosyncratic piano part and eventually leads into a saxophone solo with trumpets in the background.
             "Hunting Wabbits 3" is one of their "different" songs on the album. It sounds like it never really arrives at a resolution. It just keeps going with the melody passed around sections. It actually sounds perfect to be in a "Loony Toons" episode with Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny, and as its title denotes, this is its purpose. About half way through the song, it switches to a strong swing feel. The piano starts the chang...