Don Friedman Trio - Circle Waltz (1975 Japanese Riverside Vinyl LP)

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Don Friedman Trio - Circle Waltz | Vinyl LP - 1975 Japanese Riverside Reissue (SMJ-6082, Riverside Original Recording Series No. 37, Victor Musical Industries, Inc.)

Don Friedman was born in San Francisco in 1935 and moved to New York in the late 1950s, where he worked with Ornette Coleman and recorded his first Riverside album, A Day in the City, in 1961. Circle Waltz followed a year later. Orrin Keepnews produced; Ray Fowler engineered. The trio brought together Chuck Israels — who had become Bill Evans's regular bassist after Scott LaFaro's death in July 1961 — and Pete LaRoca, who had recorded Basra for Blue Note and was among the most original drummers of the post-bop generation. The resemblance of this trio's language to Evans's Riverside work is audible and has been noted from the album's first reviews; what distinguishes Friedman's approach is its greater angularity and the modal orientation of his own compositions.

Four of the seven tracks are Friedman originals: the title waltz, "Sea's Breeze," "Loves Parting" and the closing "Modes Pivoting." Dave Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way" — the standard Evans had made closely associated with his own trio — and the 1941 pop standard "I Hear a Rhapsody" fill out the programme. Cole Porter's "So in Love" is performed as an unaccompanied piano solo, with Israels and LaRoca absent for the track. This is the 1975 Japanese Riverside reissue, No. 37 in the Riverside Original Recording Series, manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc.