Don Friedman Trio - Flashback (1975 Japanese Riverside Stereo Vinyl LP)

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Don Friedman Trio - Flashback | Vinyl LP - 1975 Japanese Riverside Stereo Reissue (SMJ-6094, Riverside Original Recording Series No. 46, Victor Musical Industries, Inc.)

Don Friedman made three albums for Riverside in quick succession — A Day in the City (1961), Circle Waltz (1962) and Flashback (1963). All three were produced by Orrin Keepnews, all recorded in New York with small groups, and all built around the same essential qualities: Friedman's ability to extend a melodic phrase past its expected resolution, his feel for rubato, and his instinct for finding the most lyrical path through whatever material he had chosen.

Flashback uses Plaza Sound Studios and a trio of Dick Kniss on bass and Dick Berk on drums. Of the seven tracks, four are Friedman originals. "Ballade in C-Sharp Minor" is the album's central statement in ballad form — slow and harmonically specific, nothing decorative about the writing. "News Blues" moves at a different pace, sharper and more direct. "Ochre (Theme–Solo–Duet–Theme)" describes its own structure: theme, unaccompanied piano solo, piano-bass duet with Kniss, return to theme, eight minutes in total. "Flashback," the closing original, is the most fluid of the four. The three standards provide contrast: "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz), "Wait 'Til You See Her" (Rodgers and Hart) and Irving Berlin's "How Deep Is the Ocean?" — the last given a measured, unhurried reading that stretches across nearly six minutes.

The 1975 Japanese Riverside pressing (SMJ-6094) is the Riverside Original Recording Series No. 46, manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc.