Trombonist and Conductor
This performance is taken from the legendary “Brass Buddies” concert in 2001 honoring Adolph “Bud” Herseth. It features Friedman’s arrangement of Richard Strauss’s monumental Alpine Symphony, played by the Chicago Continue Reading →
Recorded in 1971 and rereleased on CD in 2002, this disc is an excellent example of how an orchestral low brass section can sound. The disc contains fifteen orchestral excerpts Continue Reading →
In January 2017 Jay Friedman and Noah Gladstone co-produced a DVD masterclass that covers a wide variety of Jay’s pedagogy and his experience playing principal trombone in the Chicago Symphony Continue Reading →
This album from 1968 is the gold standard of brass playing, the recording against which all other brass recordings must be evaluated. Jay Friedman was a member of this powerful Continue Reading →
Released in 2000, The Singing Trombone consists of twenty-one orchestral excerpts, twelve Bordogni vocalises, and three excerpts from the literature of other instruments. The disc is Jay Friedman’s answer to the many Continue Reading →