David Friedman (vibraphonist)

David Friedman (2009)

David Friedman (1978)

David Friedman (* 10. March 1944 in New York City , New York) is an American jazz - vibraphone and Marimbaphonist .

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Friedman studied drums and xylophone in the 1950s and 1960s and attended the Juilliard School of Music . He also learned from Teddy Charles and Hall Overton . In the following years he gained a wide range of musical experiences working with Leonard Bernstein , Luciano Berio , Bobby McFerrin , Wayne Shorter and Yoko Ono . He has performed live and on records with musicians such as Joe Henderson , Horace Silver , Johnny Griffin , Jane Ira Bloom , Ron Carter , Joe Chambers , Hubert Laws , Horacee Arnold , Dino Betti van der Noot and John Scofield .

In 1975 he founded The Mallet Duo , in 1977 he and Dave Samuels were among the founders of the marimba-vibraphone quartet Double Image . The album Shades of Change (1982), recorded with Geri Allen, Anthony Cox and Ronnie Burrage , was ranked among the twenty best CDs of the year by Down Beat magazine . On the 1992 album Ternaire he was listening to Daniel Humair and Jean-François Jenny-Clark .

With the bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi and the bassist Anthony Cox he worked on a project about Astor Piazzolla's tango compositions. With Jean-Louis Matinier and Anthony Cox he recorded the CD Other Worlds in 1996 . He also worked with the NDR Big Band and the musicians Jasper van't Hof and John Taylor . In 2003 he founded the Trio Tambour with Peter Less and Pepe Berns , whose CD Earfood was released in 2004.

In the 1970s Friedman taught at the Manhattan School of Music and the Montreux's Institute for Advanced Musical Studies . Since 1989 he has been professor for vibraphone and composition at the University of the Arts in Berlin ; from 2005 Friedman taught at the newly founded Jazz Institute Berlin . After his official retirement in 2012, he was asked to accompany his current students until they graduate. As a result, he worked at the institute for a few more years.

Discographic notes

Tripple Hip Trip with Harvie Swartz and Daniel Humair, 1972
Winter Love April Joy with Hubert Laws, Dave Samuels and Harvie Swartz, 1975
Futures Passed with Rimona Francis , Pat Rebillot , Harvie Swartz and Bruce Ditmas , 1976
Double Image with Dave Samuels, Harvie Swartz and Michael Di Pasqua , 1977
Dawn with Dave Samuels, Harvie Swartz and Michael Di Pasqua, 1978
Of The Wind's Eye with Jane Ira Bloom, Harvie Swartz and Daniel Humair, 1980
In Lands I Never Saw with Dave Samuels, 1981
Peace with Chet Baker , Buster Williams and Joe Chambers, 1982
Shades of Change with Geri Allen , Anthony Cox and Ronnie Burrage , 1982
Ternaire with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair, 1991
Open Hand with Dave Samuels, 1993
Air Sculpture , solo album, 1994
Greenhouse Fables with Kenny Wheeler and Jasper van't Hof, 1994
Rios with Dino Saluzzi and Anthony Cox, 1995
Junkyard with Chuck Loeb , Dave Charles u. a., 1995.
Other Worlds with Jean Louis Matinier and Anthony Cox, 1996
Duotones with Dave Samuels, 1997
Birds of a Feather with Jasper van't Hof, 1999
Earfood with Peter Less and Pepe Berns, 2004
Rétro with Peter Less, 2010
Flight , Malletmuse Records, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME	Friedman, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz vibraphonist and marimba player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York