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Don Friedman Trio

Don Friedman Trio

Don Friedman Trio has been played on NTS shows including Music To Ease Your Disease, with Circle Waltz first played on 29 November 2015.

Don Friedman (Donald Ernest Friedman, May 4, 1935 – June 30, 2016) was an American jazz pianist.

On the West Coast, Friedman performed with Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, Buddy DeFranco and Ornette Coleman, among others, before moving to New York. There, he led his own trio in addition to playing in Pepper Adams's, Booker Little's and Jimmy Giuffre's bands in the sixties. He was also a part of Clark Terry's big band. He most recently worked in New York as a pianist and jazz educator. He has many fans in Japan, and had toured the country.

Discography

As leader A Day in the City (Riverside, 1961) Circle Waltz (Riverside, 1962) Flashback (Riverside, 1963) Dreams and Explorations (Riverside, 1964) Metamorphosis (Prestige, 1966) Hope for Tomorrow (East Wind, 1975) Hot Knepper and Pepper (Progressive, 1978) I Hear a Rhapsody (Stash, 1984) Don Friedman at Maybeck (Concord, 1993) Invitation (Progressive, 1994) Opus D'Amour (Sackville, 1994) – with Don Thompson Almost Everything (SteepleChase, 1995) Thingin' (Hat Art, 1996) – with Lee Konitz and Attila Zoller My Romance: Solo Piano (SteepleChase, 1997) Timeless (Village, 2003) Hot House (Chiaroscuro, 2004) Piano Works VI (ACT, 2006)

As sideman With Buddy Collette

Nice Day with Buddy Collette (Contemporary, 1957)

With John Handy

No Coast Jazz (Roulette, 1960) With Joe Henderson

Tetragon (Milestone, 1968)

With Elvin Jones

And Then Again (Atlantic, 1965)

With Don Lanphere

Into Somewhere (Hep, 1983)

With Booker Little

Out Front (Candid, 1961) Booker Little and Friend (Bethlehem, 1961) With Charles Lloyd

Discovery! (Columbia, 1964)

With Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Live at Newport (Atlantic, 1963) My Kinda Groove (Atlantic, 1964) Our Mann Flute (Atlantic, 1966) The Beat Goes On (Atlantic, 1967)

With Dave Pike

Manhattan Latin (Decca, 1964) The Doors of Perception (Vortex, 1966)

With Clark Terry

It's What's Happenin' (Impulse!, 1967) Live on QE2 (Chiaroscuro, 2001)

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Don Friedman Trio

Don Friedman Trio has been played on NTS shows including Music To Ease Your Disease, with Circle Waltz first played on 29 November 2015.

Don Friedman (Donald Ernest Friedman, May 4, 1935 – June 30, 2016) was an American jazz pianist.

On the West Coast, Friedman performed with Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, Buddy DeFranco and Ornette Coleman, among others, before moving to New York. There, he led his own trio in addition to playing in Pepper Adams's, Booker Little's and Jimmy Giuffre's bands in the sixties. He was also a part of Clark Terry's big band. He most recently worked in New York as a pianist and jazz educator. He has many fans in Japan, and had toured the country.

Discography

As leader A Day in the City (Riverside, 1961) Circle Waltz (Riverside, 1962) Flashback (Riverside, 1963) Dreams and Explorations (Riverside, 1964) Metamorphosis (Prestige, 1966) Hope for Tomorrow (East Wind, 1975) Hot Knepper and Pepper (Progressive, 1978) I Hear a Rhapsody (Stash, 1984) Don Friedman at Maybeck (Concord, 1993) Invitation (Progressive, 1994) Opus D'Amour (Sackville, 1994) – with Don Thompson Almost Everything (SteepleChase, 1995) Thingin' (Hat Art, 1996) – with Lee Konitz and Attila Zoller My Romance: Solo Piano (SteepleChase, 1997) Timeless (Village, 2003) Hot House (Chiaroscuro, 2004) Piano Works VI (ACT, 2006)

As sideman With Buddy Collette

Nice Day with Buddy Collette (Contemporary, 1957)

With John Handy

No Coast Jazz (Roulette, 1960) With Joe Henderson

Tetragon (Milestone, 1968)

With Elvin Jones

And Then Again (Atlantic, 1965)

With Don Lanphere

Into Somewhere (Hep, 1983)

With Booker Little

Out Front (Candid, 1961) Booker Little and Friend (Bethlehem, 1961) With Charles Lloyd

Discovery! (Columbia, 1964)

With Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Live at Newport (Atlantic, 1963) My Kinda Groove (Atlantic, 1964) Our Mann Flute (Atlantic, 1966) The Beat Goes On (Atlantic, 1967)

With Dave Pike

Manhattan Latin (Decca, 1964) The Doors of Perception (Vortex, 1966)

With Clark Terry

It's What's Happenin' (Impulse!, 1967) Live on QE2 (Chiaroscuro, 2001)

Original source: Last.fm

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