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.Discography
As leader
With Double Image
- Double Image
- Dawn
- Dialogues: Three Duets for Marimba, and Vibraphone
- In Lands I Never Saw
- Open Hand
- Moment to Moment
With Four Drummers Drumming
- Four Drummers Drumming
- Electricity
As sideman
With Tim Buckley
- '
- Happy Sad
- Blue Afternoon
- Once I Was
- Works in Progress
- The Copenhagen Tapes
With Daniel Humair
- Triple Hip Trip
- Surrounded 1964/87
- Ear Mix
With Jazzanova
- Another New Day/L.O.V.E. and You & I
- In Between
- Remixed
With Hubert Laws
- Afro-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 Ono
- Feeling the Space
- Season of Glass
- It's Alright
With Beth Orton
- Best Bit
- Central Reservation
- Trailer Park
With others'
Tribe Horace Arnold, Tales of the Exonerated Flea Chet Baker, She Was Too Good to Me Chet Baker, Peace Blood, Sweat & Tears, More Than Ever George Benson, Good King Bad Jane Ira Bloom, Second Wind Jane Ira Bloom, Modern Drama Elbow Bones and the Racketeers, New York at Dawn Brecker Brothers, Back to Back Joe Chambers, The Almoravid Chic, Chic John Clark, Faces Cy Coleman, The Party's On Me Hank Crawford, Wildflower Four Tops, Tonight! Bob Franke, For Real Aretha Franklin, Get It Right Henry Gaffney, Waiting for a Wind Henry Gaffney, On Again Off Again Jerry Granelli, Another Place Janis Ian, Who Really Cares Joe Jackson, Will Power Bob James, One Bob James, The Genie Billy Joel, 52nd Street Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Doppelganger Gershon Kingsley, First Moog Quartet Earl Klugh, Late Night Guitar Luther Vandross, Luther Luther Vandross, This Close to You Charlie Mariano, Seventy Ralph MacDonald, Sound of a Drum Ralph MacDonald, The Path Micatone, Ninesongs Bob Moses, When Elephants Dream of Music Idris Muhammad, Boogie to the Top Lauren Newton, Timbre Judy Niemack, About Time Laura Nyro, Smile David Pomeranz, Time to Fly Michel Portal, Any Way Gary Portnoy, Gary Portnoy Jim Pugh, Dave Taylor, The Pugh-Taylor Project Dino Saluzzi, Anthony Cox, David Friedman, Rios Larry Schneider, So Easy Don Sebesky, Giant Box Wayne Shorter, Odyssey of Iska Horace Silver, In Pursuit of the 27th Man Grace Slick, Dreams Keith Sykes, Keith Sykes Stanley Turrentine, The Sugar Man Frankie Valli, Lady Put the Light Out Grover Washington Jr., Soul Box Kenny Wheeler, Greenhouse Fables''
