Jazz Articles about David Friedman

About David Friedman

Album Review

Karolina Strassmayer, Drori Mondlak and David Friedman: Speak Your Truth

Read "Speak Your Truth" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 25, 2024

The creative duo of saxophonist/flutist Karolina Strassmayer and drummer Drori Mondlak have been making exciting music together for over two decades. The pair seamlessly fuses the composed and the improvised on their engaging releases, that are usually, in intimate quartet settings. Speak Your Truth is a departure from their past work yet a logical evolution of it as it is an entirely improvised set. Joining Strassmayer and Mondlak on this stimulating journey is intrepid vibraphonist David Friedman. Together ...

Liner Notes

Dino Betti van der Noot: A Chance For A Dance

by Neil Tesser
February 14, 2023

"I love the rhythm—one of the reasons I love jazz is the rhythm—but I have spent some years to free myself from the rhythm." Dino Betti van der Noot sits over breakfast rolls at the Rosetta Hotel in Perugia, Italy. “I experimented with different time signatures and finally found out that the simplest ones are perfect, as long as you make use of them as, oh, railways, rail tracks." In other words, the time-feel must be a guide, a phisical, ...

Album Review

Berlin Mallet Group: Sogni D’oro

Read "Sogni D’oro" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
April 10, 2021

Berlin Mallet Group is a new ensemble in which all five members play vibraphone and/or marimba, making it a unique group, the only improvising mallet ensemble of its kind. Two members of the quintet are key, David Friedman and Taiko Saito who together produced Sogni D'oro (Italian for “Sweet Dreams"). Considered an influential vibraphonist in the instrument's history, Friedman founded the jazz program at Berlin's University of the Arts and was its head for sixteen years; all members of Berlin ...