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Waltz for Marilyn

Label: Jazz Excursion Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Theme for Gee Tee; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Summer's End; Autumn Colors; Waltz for Marilyn; Voc

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Article: Extended Analysis

Don Friedman: Waltz For Marilyn

Read "Don Friedman: Waltz For Marilyn" reviewed by A. Henkin


Don Friedman Waltz For Marilyn Jazz Excursion Records 2007 In jazz, for all of its love of the all-star session, the long-term collaboration is of utmost importance. There have been many such relationships: bassist Charles Mingus and reed player Eric Dolphy, saxophonist John Coltrane and drummer Elvin Jones, ...

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Article: Album Review

Don Friedman: Waltz for Marilyn

Read "Waltz for Marilyn" reviewed by Samuel Chell


The impressive vita and discography of Don Friedman are but touchstones to the musicianship of this pianist who, like Kenny Barron and Hank Jones, navigates the jazz mainstream while remaining perpetually fresh if not cutting edge. On Waltz for Marilyn the seasoned veteran is joined by three like-minded, proven young musicians who bring the leader's conceptions ...

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Article: In the Studio

In the Belly of the Beast: The Story of a Recording Session

Read "In the Belly of the Beast: The Story of a Recording Session" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


It is no coincidence that jazz emerged around the same time that Edison invented the phonograph. Both jazz and recording by electrical impulses were among the early signs of “modernity. Furthermore, jazz is an improvisational form of music that is composed as it is performed, and, unlike classical music with its well-tempered scale and relatively uniform ...

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Article: Live Review

Don Friedman & Gary Smulyan Play Hot and Cool Together

Read "Don Friedman & Gary Smulyan Play Hot and Cool Together" reviewed by Daniel Kassell


Don Friedman Trio with Gary Smulyan Kitano Lounge New York, NY March 9, 2007 Without any fanfare Don Friedman's piano a cappella intro to “Alone Together intricately established the melody and sequence of his first performance on Friday the 9th of March 2007 before the evening's lead instrument, an ...

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Piano Works VI: From A To Z

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Meant To Be; When It's Time; A Thousand Dreams; Alicia's Lullaby; I Concentrate On You; Free Flow; Memory Of Scotty; From A To Z; Ask Me Now; Straight Ahead; Blues For Attila.

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Article: Album Review

Don Friedman: Piano Works VI: From A To Z

Read "Piano Works VI: From A To Z" reviewed by Chris May


At a venerable 71 years old, California-born pianist Don Friedman still has his formidable technique firmly in place. He's playing with the attack of a young man--and the devil-may-care abandon of a mature artist wholly at ease with himself. The subtitle From A To Z refers to Friedman's friend and collaborator, the Hungarian guitarist Attila Zoller ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Piano Trios: At Shelly's Manne-Hole & Timeless

Read "Piano Trios: At Shelly's Manne-Hole & Timeless" reviewed by Andrew Velez


Bill Evans Trio At Shelly's Manne-Hole Riverside/Concord 2006 He's been gone since 1980, over a quarter century. Yet Bill Evans' influence continues to grow. This 1963 session, with Chuck Israels (bass) and Larry Bunker (drums) at Shelly Manne's famed Hollywood club, is like the superb Complete Village Vanguard ...

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Live at JazzBaltica

Label: Skip Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: I Hear A Rhapsody; You Must Believe In Spring; Bud Powell; Alone Together; Memory Of Scotty; 35 W 4th Street; Half And Half.

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Article: Album Review

Don Friedman: Live at JazzBaltica

Read "Live at JazzBaltica" reviewed by A. Henkin


This group featured on this album, yet another in the happy slew of recordings coming out from Don Friedman in the last few years, is billed as the Salzau Trio. What this means is that on the occasion of Friedman's invitation to the 14th Annual JazzBaltica Festival in Salzau, Germany, he convened a trio with regular ...


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