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Waltz For Debby
By Don Friedman
Label: 441 Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 35 W. 4th St., I Concentrate on You, Waltz for Debby, Bud Powell, You Must Believe in Spring, Blues
in a Hurry, The Shadow of Your Smile, Flamands,From A to Z, Old Folks
My Foolish Heart
By Don Friedman
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Positivity/ My Foolish Heart/ Desafinado/ Memory of Scotty/ Bye, Bye, Blackbird/ Petite Fleur/ Swans/
Almost Everything.
Don Friedman: Waltz for Debby
by Andrey Henkin
Somewhere Attila Zoller is smiling, pleased to see to his one-time foil, pianist Don Friedman, playing to a full audience at the Jazz Standard last month in support of his new album Waltz for Debby. Those giddy days of the Zoller-Friedman quartet days are long past, but Don Friedman has lost little of the touch that ...
Don Friedman: Waltz for Debby
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
At the dire risk of committing gratuitous alliteration, there are four “un"s that apply to Don Friedman's playing: under-recorded, under-rated, uncluttered, and unpretentious. A West Coast veteran who's played with Herbie Mann, Charles Lloyd, and Ornette Coleman, he's not a household name but is instantly engaging with his clean touch and bright, flowing sound. Like any ...
Don Friedman: My Foolish Heart
by Derek Taylor
Many modern jazz fans consider the 1960s as the creative apogee of the music. The abundance of top-flight musicians, coupled with a near continuous stream of boundary breaking innovations, made for a creatively explosive combination. The downside to this artistic boon was that many high caliber conceptualists got lost in the deluge.A case could ...
Attila's Dreams
By Don Friedman
Label: Ephemeris Jazz Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Israel; Flamands; Pink Cloud; Silent sorrow; Attila; SAFT; Joe Beam; If You Could See Me Now. (Total Time: 54:53).
Don Friedman: Attila's Dreams
by C. Michael Bailey
Sixty-seven year old pianist Don Friedman has followed up his very fine 1999 recording, Match Point. Here we find the pianist with a new group and a new label. The music is of the same high quality as his previous recordings. A fixture on the West coast during the 1950s, Friedman performed with the likes of ...
Match Point
By Don Friedman
Label: TBR Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Tickle Toes; If You Could See Me Now; I'll Remember April; There's No Such Thing As Love; Almost Everything; Ricardo Bossa Nova; Round Midnight; Green Dolphin Street; There's That Rainy Day; Match Point; Travelin; Prelude To A Kiss; Time After Time; S. S. Cool. (Total Time: 70:17)
Don Friedman Quartet: Match Point
by Dave Nathan
Born in San Francisco to a musical family, (his mother was an opera singer), Don Friedman has been known for a long time as a musician's musician, never quite achieving the public notoriety his piano styling deserves. As a young man in San Francisco, he played with the créme de la créme of the West Coast ...
Don Friedman Quartet: Match Point
by David A. Orthmann
Taking a rare, well-deserved turn as a leader, pianist Don Friedman delivers a recording of fine, small band music. The material consists primarily of a wide sweep of American Popular Songs and jazz standards. In Friedman’s scheme of things, a swing-era favorite like “Tickle Toes” coexists comfortably with “Green Dolphin Street,” “Round Midnight,” as well as ...
