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Name
  
Bennett Friedman


Role
  
Music master

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Origin
  
Education
  
Berkeley High School, San Francisco State University

Genres
  
Jazz, Mainstream jazz, Hard bop, Post-bop, West Coast jazz

Similar
  
Dave Eshelman, Barry Finnerty, Jon Hammond

Bennett friedman playing moment s notice


Bennett Friedman is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Friedman attended Berkeley High School, Boston's Berklee College of Music, and San Francisco State University, where he was awarded a Master's Degree in Music (performance).

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In addition to actively performing, Friedman is a well known music educator in the San Francisco Bay area. Friedman directed the San Francisco State University Jazz Ensembles for 8 years, and has taught on the faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College since 1977. Friedman was previously chair of the Music Department at Santa Rosa, where he currently serves as the head of Jazz Studies. He has also taught and performed at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and has recently been featured as a performer at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the Kuumba Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, and the Monterey Jazz Festival.,

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Friedman has been awarded the National Endowment For the Arts grant for jazz composition, and has been commissioned works by the International Association of Jazz Educators, as well as by numerous college music departments.

Among the musicians who cite Friedman as a significant influence is fellow saxophonist Tom Alexander, who describes Friedman a "San Francisco Jazz legend."

Bennett Friedman Quartet with Randy Vincent Guitar, Brian Ho Organ Lorca Hart Drums


Publications

"Variations On a Brazilian Song", Mission Music, 1971.

Works commissioned by the National Association of Jazz Educators, National Endowment for the Arts, University of California Bands and College of San Mateo.

Big band charts published by University of Northern Colorado Press.

As sideman

Peter Welker - We'll be Together Again" (Brownstone - 1999)

Dave Eshelman - Sea Breeze" (Sea Breeze)

Dave Eshelman - When Dreams Come True" (Sea Breeze)

Dave Eshelman - Temperature Rising" (Sea Breeze)

Dave Eshelman - The Jazz Garden" (Sea Breeze)

References

Bennett Friedman Wikipedia


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