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Erik Friedlander

Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a first-call studio player and a jazzbo. A veteran of NYC's downtown scene, his 12 CDs as a leader recently include, Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music; The Broken Arm Trio, a trio tribute to jazz bassist Oscar Pettiford; and Volac, a romantic collection of virtuoso solo cello pieces by John Zorn. Erik has performed on 100's of recordings and soundtracks including work with Laurie Anderson, The Mountain Goats, Ennio Morricone, and Courtney Love. Friedlander started studying music at an early age, beginning at age 5 with folk guitar and then, at age 8, cello lessons

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Album: Close Up
By SARA SERPA
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 4:03

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A Jazz Immuno-Booster: Part 2

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

Our sequestration continues. But so does this mix-tape series featuring music selected by jazz musicians to whom we have asked to share one song they rely on when they need to be uplifted, or soothed, and to make us fly beyond the walls that keep us protected from the greatest pandemic of our generation.

Erik Friedlander Throw A Glass al Pinocchio di Firenze

By NERI POLLASTRI

Erik Friedlander Throw a Glass Firenze Pinocchio Live Jazz 8.2.2020 Inizio della programmazione di Febbraio al Pinocchio con una formazione statunitense di primissimo livello: il quartetto Throw a Glass del violoncellista Erik Friedlander, con Uri Caine al pianoforte, Mark Helias al contrabbasso e Ches Smith alla batteria. Il gruppo presentava ...

An Urban Myth: Chris Potter Circuits Quartet feat. Craig Taborn at Porto's Casa da Música

By ARIAN BAGHERI POUR FALLAH

Circuits the Record, Circuits the Quartet.The record Circuits (Edition, 2019) makes use of production as a means to architecturally bring to bay today's average, one may say alienated jazz listener, the “grooveland" referenced by Potter merely an excuse and hardly the verdict in this trial. It is a covered walk 'round new-fashioned, urban currents—skintight, ...

Sax Strike: The Sound of Jazz without Saxophones

By JENNIFER DEMERITT

Possibly, more than any other instrument, the saxophone defines the sound of jazz. Most jazz combos have at least one saxophonist on the front—and when you see that saxophone, you know it's going to be doing a LOT of soloing, even if the bandleader or composer plays another instrument. But what happens to the shape and ...

Erik Friedlander - Throw a Glass al Piacenza Jazz Fest 2019

By LUCA MUCHETTI

Throw a Glass: Erik Friedlander, Uri Caine, Mark Helias, Ches Smith Piacenza Jazz Fest 2019 Galleria Alberoni Piacenza 5.4.2019 Non poteva che risultare liquida, talvolta euforica, talaltra depressa e a tratti stupendamente allucinatoria la trasposizione live di Artemisia, l'album che Throw a Glass, il super-gruppo capitanato da Erik Friedlander, ...

New sounds from Chris Potter, Matthew Shipp, Sunjae Lee and more

By BOB OSBORNE

This show features albums by Chris Potter, Matthew Shipp Trio with Nicole Mitchell, Sunjae Lee and Quinsin Nachoff together with releases from vocalists Angela Verbrugge and Karin Plato, and one or two surprises in between... Playlist Chris Potter “Hold It" from Circuits (Edition) 00:00 Matthew Shipp Trio invites Nicole Mitchell “Elements" from All ...