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Kelly Friesen

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Canadian-born bassist Kelly Friesen has played music ranging stylistically from straight ahead jazz and 1920’s Dixieland to classical, pop and Rhythm and Blues with such notable performance groups as Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band (1997-2001), the Julliard Symphony Orchestra, and “Sister Sledge” (We Are Family). His formal training included Classical studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto for bass, piano, voice and theory. He also received 4 years of private instruction from legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown (1993-1997) and the prominent Classical bassist Homer Mensch. Since moving to New York in 1993 he has firmly established himself as a top sideman and leader, working with jazz greats such as Herb Ellis, Bucky Pizzarelli, Etta Jones, Dick Hyman, Jerome Richardson, Frank Wess and Joe Wilder, to name a few

Album

Kelly Friesen Sings Songs Of Love

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Look For The Silver Lining; You Brought A New Kinda Love To Me; The Lonely One; My Heart Stood Still; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Do It the Hard Way; Caravan; Teach Me Tonight; Quiet Nights; Let's Get Lost; Sweet Lorraine; Time After Time; Goodbye.

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Article: Album Review

Kelly Friesen: Kelly Friesen Sings Songs Of Love

Read "Kelly Friesen Sings Songs Of Love" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Bassist/vocalist Kelly Friesen was born in Canada and studied bass, piano, voice and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. A New Yorker since 1993, Friesen studied with Ray Brown for four years in the 1990s. His experience on the New York has been broad; he has appeared with Herb Ellis, Etta Jones and ...

Album

Sings Songs of Love

Label: Self Produced
Released: 0


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