Don Friedman

Don Friedman
Don Friedman at The Kitano Jazz Lounge, September 2009
Background information
Born	4 May 1935 (1935-05-04) San Francisco California United States
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, bandleader
Instruments	Piano
Associated acts	Pepper Adams, Booker Little, Jimmy Giuffre, Clark Terry
Website	Don Friedman.net

Donald Ernest Friedman (born May 4, 1935 in San Francisco California), better known as Don Friedman, is a jazz pianist. On the West Coast, he 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 currently works in New York as a pianist and jazz educator. He has many fans in Japan, and has recently toured in the country.

Discography

As sideman

With Joe Henderson

• Tetragon (Milestone, 1968)

With Don Lanphere

• Into Somewhere (Hep, 1983)

With Booker Little

• Out Front (Candid, 1961)

With Charles Lloyd

• Discovery! (Columbia, 1964)

With Clark Terry

• It's What's Happenin' (Impulse!, 1967)

Notes

• All Music Guide to Jazz, The experts' guide to the best jazz recordings, second edition, edited by Michael Erlewine, Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco (1996)
• All Music Guide to Jazz. The definitive guide to jazz music, fourth edition. edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Backbeat Books, San Francisco (2002)
• The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, By Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, Horizon Press, New York (1976)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, First edition, Two volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld Macmillan Press, London (1988)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Edited by Barry Kernfeld, St. Martin's Press, New York (1994)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second edition, Three volumes. Edited by Barry Kernfeld, Macmillan Publishers, London (2002)

External links

• Don Friedman discography at JazzDiscography.com
• Don Friedman Jazz Pianist! at DonFriedman.net