David Friedman (born March 10, 1944, New York, United States) is an American

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percussionist. His primary instruments are

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and

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

. Friedman studied drums in the 1950s, then marimba and

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in the 1960s at

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. In the 1960s he was a member of the

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and the pit orchestra of the

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, and worked as a jazz musician with

Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davi ...

Joe Chambers Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage * ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated ...

Hubert Laws Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm- ...

Horace Silver Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sc ...

, and Horacee Arnold in the 1970s. He and

Dave Samuels David Alan Samuels (October 9, 1948 – April 22, 2019) was an American vibraphone and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra. His recordings and live performances during that period also reflect his p ...

played together in drum workshops before starting a project in 1975, called The Mallet Duo. They also assembled a quartet called Double Image during the years 1977–1980. Friedman later worked with Daniel Humair and Chet Baker, and taught at the

Manhattan School of Music The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...

and in

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in the 1970s. He moved to Europe and now(-2021) lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been teaching many European percussionists/vibraphonists.

Discography

As leader

* ''Winter Love April Joy'' (

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, 1975) * ''Futures Passed'' (

Enja Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971. The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Ja ...

, 1977) * ''Of the Wind's Eye'' (Enja, 1981) * ''Shades of Change'' with Geri Allen, Anthony Cox, Ronnie Burrage (Enja, 1986) * ''Ternaire'' with Daniel Humair, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (Deux Z, 1992) * ''Air Sculpture'' (Traumton, 1994) * ''Other Worlds'' with Anthony Cox, Jean-Louis Matinier (Intuition, 1997) * ''Birds of a Feather'' with Jasper Van't Hof (Traumton, 1999) * ''Earfood'' (Skip, 2004) * ''Weaving Through Motion'' (Traumton, 2014) * ''Rodney's Parallel Universe'' (Skip, 2007) * ''Retro'' with Peter Weniger (Skip, 2010) * ''Thursday'' (Malletmuse, 2018) * ''Flight'' (Malletmuse, 2019) Wit
Double Image
'' * ''Double Image'' (

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, 1977) * ''Dawn'' ( ECM, 1979) * ''Dialogues: Three Duets for Marimba, and Vibraphone'' (Marimba, 1985) * ''In Lands I Never Saw'' (Celestial Harmonies, 1986) * ''Open Hand'' (DMP, 1994) * ''Moment to Moment'' (Double Image 2006) With Four Drummers Drumming * ''Four Drummers Drumming'' (Backyard, 1990) * ''Electricity'' (Backyard, 1991)

As sideman

With

Tim Buckley Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years. Buckley began his career based in folk music, but his subsequent albums experimented with ...

* '' Dream Letter: Live in London 1968'' (1968) * '' Happy Sad'' ( Elektra, 1969) * ''

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'' (

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, 1969) * ''Once I Was'' (Strange Fruit, 1999) * ''Works in Progress'' (Rhino, 1999) * ''The Copenhagen Tapes'' (PLR, 2000) With Daniel Humair * ''Triple Hip Trip'' (Owl, 1979) * ''Surrounded 1964/87'' (Blue Flame, 1987) * ''Ear Mix'' (Sketch, 2003) With

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* ''Another New Day/L.O.V.E. and You & I'' (Ropeadope, 2002) * ''In Between'' (JCR, 2002) * ''Remixed'' (JCR, 2003) With

* ''Afro-Classic'' (CTI, 1970) * ''Morning Star'' (CTI, 1972) * ''The Rite of Spring'' (CTI, 1972) * ''Carnegie Hall'' (CTI, 1973) * ''In the Beginning'' (CTI, 1974) * ''Then There Was Light Volume 1'' (CTI, 1974) * ''Then There Was Light Volume 2'' (CTI, 1974) With

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

* ''

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'' (Apple, 1973) * '' Season of Glass'' (Geffen, 1981) * ''

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'' (Polydor, 1982) With Beth Orton * '' Best Bit'' (Heavenly, 1997) * ''

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'' (Heavenly, 1999) * ''Trailer Park'' (Heavenly, 2009) With others *

Horace Arnold Horace Emmanuel Arnold, or Horacee Arnold (born September 25, 1937) is an American jazz drummer. He was born in Wayland, Kentucky. Career Arnold first began playing drums in 1957 in Los Angeles while he was in the United States Coast Guard. In ...

, ''Tribe'' (Columbia, 1973) * Horace Arnold, ''Tales of the Exonerated Flea'' (Columbia, 1974) * Chet Baker, ''She Was Too Good to Me'' (CTI, 1974) * Chet Baker, ''

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'' (Enja, 1982) *

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, ''More Than Ever'' (Columbia, 1976) *

George Benson George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, pla ...

, ''

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'' (CTI, 1976) *

Jane Ira Bloom Jane Ira Bloom (born January 12, 1955) is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer. Early years Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Joel and Evelyn Bloom. She began as a pianist and drummer, later switching to the alto saxophon ...

, ''Second Wind'' (Outline, 1980) *

, ''

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'' (Columbia, 1987) *

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, ''New York at Dawn'' (Hot Shot, 2012) *

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, ''Back to Back'' (Arista, 1976) *

, ''

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, ''Chic'' (Atlantic, 1977) * John Clark, ''Faces'' (ECM, 1981) *

Cy Coleman Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. Life and career Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, United States, to Eastern European Jewish parents ...

, ''The Party's On Me'' (RCA Victor, 1976) * Hank Crawford, ''Wildflower'' (Kudu, 1973) *

Four Tops The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. The group's repertoire has included soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, doo-wop, jazz, and show tunes. Founded as the ...

, ''Tonight!'' (Casablanca, 1981) *

Bob Franke Bob Franke (born July 25, 1947, in Hamtramck, Michigan) is an American folk singer-songwriter. Biography He began his career in 1965, while a student at the University of Michigan, and performed at The Ark, a coffeehouse in Ann Arbor. After ...

, ''For Real'' (Flying Fish, 1986) *

Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin ( ; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the " Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in ''Rolling Stone''s "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". With ...

, '' Get It Right'' (Arista, 1983) * Henry Gaffney, ''Waiting for a Wind'' (RCA, 1976) * Henry Gaffney, ''On Again Off Again'' (Manhattan, 1978) *

Jerry Granelli Gerald John Granelli (December 30, 1940July 20, 2021) was an American-Canadian jazz drummer. He was best known for playing drums on the soundtrack '' A Charlie Brown Christmas'' with the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Early life Granelli was born to Jack ...

, ''Another Place'' (veraBra, 1993) *

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, '' Who Really Cares'' (Verve Forecast, 1969) * Joe Jackson, ''Will Power'' (A&M, 1987) * Bob James, ''One'' (CTI, 1974) * Bob James, ''The Genie'' (Tappan Zee, 1983) *

Billy Joel William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man (song), Piano Man" after his album and signature song of the same name, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo ...

, '' 52nd Street'' (Columbia, 1978) *

Kid Creole and the Coconuts Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American musical group created by August Darnell with Andy Hernandez and Adriana Kaegi. Its music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular a mix of disco and Latin American, Caribbean ...

, ''Doppelganger'' (Sire, 1983) *

Gershon Kingsley Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founde ...

, ''First Moog Quartet'' (Audio Fidelity, 1970) *

Earl Klugh Earl Klugh ( ; born September 16, 1953) is an American acoustic guitarist and composer. He has won one Grammy award and thirteen nominations. Klugh was awarded the “1977” Best Recording Award For Performance and Sound” for his album “Fin ...

, ''Late Night Guitar'' (Liberty, 1980) *

Luther Vandross Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his sweet and soulful vocals, Vandross has sold over 40 million records worldwide. He achieved eleven consecutive P ...

, ''Luther'' (Cotillion, 1976) * Luther Vandross, ''This Close to You'' (Cotillion, 1977) *

Charlie Mariano Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz saxophonist who focused on the alto and soprano saxophone. He occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well. Biography Mariano was born in ...

, ''Seventy'' (veraBra, 1993) *

Ralph MacDonald Ralph Anthony MacDonald (March 15, 1944 – December 18, 2011) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian American, Trinbagonian-American percussionist, songwriter, musical arranger, record producer, steelpan virtuoso and philanthropist. His compositions ...

, ''Sound of a Drum'' (Marlin, 1976) * Ralph MacDonald, ''The Path'' (Marlin, 1978) *

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, ''Ninesongs'' (No Zession, 2001) *

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, ''When Elephants Dream of Music'' (Gramavision, 1983) * Idris Muhammad, ''Boogie to the Top'' (Kudu, 1978) * Lauren Newton, ''Timbre'' (hat, 1983) *

Judy Niemack Judy Niemack (born March 11, 1954) is an American jazz vocalist. Early life Judy Niemack was born in Pasadena, California to a musical family. She began singing in a church choir from the age of seven.Judy Niemack biography at All About Jazz ...

, ''About Time'' (Sony, 2002) *

Laura Nyro Laura Nyro ( ; born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums ''Eli and the Thirteenth Confession'' (1968 ...

, ''

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'' (Columbia, 1976) *

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, ''Time to Fly'' (Decca, 1971) *

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

, ''Any Way'' (Label Bleu, 1993) *

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, ''Gary Portnoy'' (Sony, 1992) *

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, Dave Taylor, ''The Pugh-Taylor Project'' (DMP, 1984) *

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, Anthony Cox, David Friedman, ''Rios'' (Intuition, 1995) * Larry Schneider, ''So Easy'' (Label Bleu, 1988) *

Don Sebesky Don Sebesky (born December 10, 1937) is an American arranger, jazz trombonist, and keyboardist. Biography Sebesky trained in trombone at the Manhattan School of Music; in his early career, he played with Kai Winding, Claude Thornhill, Tommy D ...

, ''Giant Box'' (CTI, 1973) *

, ''Odyssey of Iska'' (Blue Note, 1971) *

, ''In Pursuit of the 27th Man'' (Blue Note, 1973) *

Grace Slick Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, artist, and painter. Slick was a key figure in San Francisco's early psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. With a music career spanning four decades, ...

, ''Dreams'' (RCA, 1980) * Keith Sykes, ''Keith Sykes'' (Vanguard, 1969) *

Stanley Turrentine Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion ...

, ''The Sugar Man'' (CTI, 1975) * Frankie Valli, '' Lady Put the Light Out'' (Private Stock, 1977) * Grover Washington Jr., ''Soul Box'' (Kudu, 1973) *

Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he was also active ...

, ''Greenhouse Fables'' (Sentemo, 1992)

References

*Ron Wynn, David Friedmanat

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External links

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