David Friedman (percussionist)


David Friedman is an American jazz percussionist. His primary instruments are vibraphone and marimba.
Friedman studied drums in the 1950s, then marimba and xylophone in the 1960s at Juilliard. In the 1960s he was a member of the New York Philharmonic and the pit orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, and worked as a jazz musician with Wayne Shorter, Joe Chambers, Hubert Laws, Horace Silver, and Horacee Arnold in the 1970s. He and Dave Samuels 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 and in Montreux in the 1970s.
He moved to Europe and now lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been teaching many European percussionists/vibraphonists.
WWW david-friedman.de

Discography

As leader

Winter Love April Joy Futures Passed Of the Wind's Eye Shades of Change with Geri Allen, Anthony Cox, Ronnie Burrage Junkyard with David Charles Ternaire with Daniel Humair, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark Air Sculpture Other Worlds with Anthony Cox, Jean-Louis Matinier Birds of a Feather with Jasper Van't Hof Earfood Weaving Through Motion Rodney's Parallel Universe Retro with Peter Weniger Thursday Flight
With Double Image Dawn Dialogues: Three Duets for Marimba, and Vibraphone In Lands I Never Saw Open Hand Moment to Moment
With Four Drummers DrummingFour Drummers Drumming
  • ''Electricity''

As sideman

With Tim BuckleyHappy Sad Blue Afternoon Once I Was Works in Progress The Copenhagen Tapes
With Daniel HumairTriple Hip Trip Surrounded 1964/87 Ear Mix
With JazzanovaAnother New Day/L.O.V.E. and You & I In Between Remixed
With Hubert LawsAfro-Classic Morning Star The Rite of Spring Carnegie Hall In the Beginning Then There Was Light Volume 1 Then There Was Light Volume 2
With Yoko OnoFeeling the Space Season of Glass It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
With Beth OrtonBest Bit Central Reservation Trailer Park
With others