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Dave Liebman

Born: September 4, 1946

David Liebman was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 4,1946. He began classical piano lessons at the age of nine andsaxophone by twelve. His “epiphany” was hearing John Coltraneperform live in New York City clubs such as Birdland, VillageVanguard and Half Note as a teenager. Throughout high school andcollege, Liebman pursued his jazz interest by studying withsaxophone guru Joe Allard as well as jazz musicians Lennie

Tristano and Charles Lloyd. Upon graduation from New YorkUniversity (with a degree in American History), he began toseriously devote himself to the full time pursuit of being a jazz artist.In the early 1970s, Liebman took the leading organizational role asFounder and President of Free Life Communication, a cooperative ofseveral dozen young cutting edge musicians intent on performingaround New York in venues outside the traditional jazz clubsituation. Free Life became an integral part of the fertile New York"loft" jazz scene in this period and was funded by the New YorkState Council of the Arts and enjoyed a residency in the “Space forInnovative Development” which was a renovated church funded bythe Rubin Foundation as a home for the arts in midtown Manhattanalong with several other notable avant-garde performinggroups…the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis ballet companiesalong with Joe Chaikan’s “Open Theater.”

Singing Red, Featuring David Liebman, Kresten Osgood, Niels Præstholm

By Jon Hemmersam

Label: Konnex Records
Released: 2015

"Remembering the Future"..Featuring David Liebman, Bob Moses,Michael Jefry Stevens, Ken filiano

By Jon Hemmersam

Label: JSH Music
Released: 2009