Jazz Articles about Kelly Friesen

Kelly Friesen: Kelly Friesen Sings Songs Of Love

by Michael P. Gladstone
August 23, 2006

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 Frank Wess, among others, and has played at several big-name venues.

His 1997 debut album, Back In Time, with Howard Alden and George Kelly, ...