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In the Belly of the Beast: The Story of a Recording Session
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 ...
Don Friedman & Gary Smulyan Play Hot and Cool Together
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 ...
Piano Works VI: From A To Z
By Don Friedman
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.
Don Friedman: Piano Works VI: From A To Z
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 ...
Piano Trios: At Shelly's Manne-Hole & Timeless
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 ...
Live at JazzBaltica
By Don Friedman
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.
Don Friedman: Live at JazzBaltica
by Andrey 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 ...
Don Friedman
by Andrey Henkin
Pianist Don Friedman's sessionography reads like a jazz encyclopedia. A favorite choice on the keys for his tasteful yet progressive playing, he has played with luminaries from Booker Little to Jimmy Giuffre to Clark Terry. Friedman now leads a piano trio and we spoke with him after a successful engagement at the Kitano in February.
My Favorite Things
By Don Friedman
Label: 441 Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1 My Favorite Things 5:44
2 It Could Happen to You 7:05
3 Easy to Love 5:46
4 Ask Me Now 7:07
5 Schmooze Blooze 5:29
6 Never Let Me Go 7:30
7 Half and Half 3:34
8 I'm All Smiles 6:34
9 Giant Steps 3:56
10 Summer'd End 6:20
Don Friedman: My Favorite Things
by Riel Lazarus
One of the sweetest sounds in jazz is that of a well groomed piano trio. Many would agree, there's little to contend with an able- bodied threesome, flipping through the pages of this or that tune, together finding its cozy hearth in harmony and rhythm. Veteran pianist Don Friedman has found that center and, alongside bassist ...
