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Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman

Born:
Sep 04, 1946 in New York City

  • Alternative Name: David Liebman
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Active: '60s - 2000s
  • Instruments: Sax (Tenor), Sax (Soprano), Flute

Biography

Dave Liebman has developed through time to become one of the top soprano saxophonists in jazz. A highly individual and explorative (yet versatile) improviser who can stretch from bop to free, Liebman studied early on with Lennie Tristano and Charles Lloyd. He gained important experience playing with Ten Wheel Drive (1970), Elvin Jones (1971-1973), and Miles Davis' fusion group (1973-1974). Liebman formed Lookout Farm in 1974, the first of several groups (including Quest in the 1980s) that teamed his reeds with pianist Richie Beirach. By the late '80s, he had largely dropped the tenor to concentrate on soprano and occasionally flute, although he made a rare recording on tenor for Double-Time in 1995. Dave Liebman, who is very active in jazz education and has written several books, has recorded for a countless number of labels through the years as a leader, including PM, ECM, Horizon, Timeless, Palo Alto, Impulse, Soul Note, Heads Up, Storyville, Owl, CMP, Red, and Candid. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Representative Albums:

The Tree, Setting the Standard, Seasons

Is Also Known As:

David Liebman

Similar Artists:

John Stubblefield, Jane Ira Bloom, Steve Grossman, James Spaulding, Steve Lacy, Chico Freeman, George Coleman, Gary Bartz

Influences:

John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Lennie Tristano, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Bob Moses, Charles Lloyd, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis

Followers:

Jerome Sabbagh, Ellery Eskelin, Michael Zilber

Performed Songs By:

Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Jeff Palmer, Richie Beirach, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein

Worked With:

Dave Baker, Walter Quintus, Kent Heckman, Al Foster, Badal Roy, Ron McClure, Billy Hart
 
 
Wikipedia: Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman (born on 4 September 1946, Brooklyn, New York) is an American saxophonist and flautist.

Liebman is a New Yorker, and a History graduate from New York University. He learned both piano and saxophone as a boy but had no formal jazz education. In the late sixties he worked with Pete La Roca, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Steve Swallow, amongst others, before joining Elvin Jones's band. In 1972 he was asked to join Miles Davis's group, and he can be heard on Davis's albums On the Corner, Big Fun, Dark Magus, and Get Up With It (the half-hour opening track "He Loved Him Madly" is based on Liebman's haunting flute). After leaving Davis's group in 1974, he toured with Corea and recorded two albums for ECM. He has played tenor saxophone, but his main instrument is the soprano saxophone, which he has played exclusively since 1980. He has continued to perform and record up to the present day. Liebman is a master player in the modern style of John Coltrane, and considers himself a disciple of tenorman Hank Mobley.

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