David Friedman Generation Trio

David Friedman (vibraphone), Oliver Potratz (bass), Tilo Weber (drums)

When someone turns 80, they have a lot to tell. About the past, for one thing. What he hasn't already done. Projects with the bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi, or with the vibraphonist Dave Samuels and so many other great musicians have enriched his career and are comprehensively documented alongside his own albums. There are numerous recordings and performances with Geri Allen, Jane Ira Bloom, Bob James, Charlie Mariano, Joe Henderson, Hubert Laws, or Chet Baker, Horace Silver and Wayne Shorter, the jazz legends Friedman himself is already counted among. He has also made studio recordings with popular artists such as Billy Joel, Yoko Ono, Aretha Franklin, George Benson and Nile Rodgers Chic. Since the late 1980s, David Friedman has been a professor at the Musikhochschule in Berlin, an authority on jazz and an important source of inspiration for young vibraphonists and musicians in general.