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Bennett Friedman
Bennett Friedman is credited on 24 releases across 5 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
24
Pressings credited
5
Albums
7
Decades active
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In collections
Biography
Bennett Friedman is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He 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). 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 chair of the Music Department at Santa Rosa and head of Jazz Studies. He has taught and performed at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and has been featured as a performer at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the Kuumba Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. 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 college music departments. Among the musicians who cite Friedman as a significant influence is saxophonist Tom Alexander, who describes Friedman as a "San Francisco Jazz legend."
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Credited work
24 releases · 5 albums · active 1964–2021
- Performance · 42
- Other credits · 6
Studios: The Music Annex · Annex Sound, Menlo Park · REP Studio, Ithaca, New York · Wally Heider Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Rance Allen
- Jym Young's San Francisco Avantgarde
- Grootna
- Dave Eshelman's Jazz Garden Big Band
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