Ed Friedland

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Dirty Laundry "Since moving to Austin, it has felt more necessary to drag out my laundry list of all the big name folks I've played with over the years. This list represents the ones I could remember, some of them going back to 1980. It's been a good mental exercise for sure, and I will add more as they seep out from the dark recessed grey matter that is my brain." Jazz Greg Abate, Steve Allen, Bruce Arnold, Bruce Barth, Joe Beck, Joshua Breakstone, Joe Cohn, Junior Cook, Larry Coryell, Hal Crook, Albert Dailey, Eddie Daniels, Kenny Davern, Buddy DeFranco, Dena Derose, Ursula Dudziak, Marc Elf, Alan Farhnam, Garrison Fewell, Robben Ford, George Garzone, Matthias Teece Gohl, Wycliffe Gordon, Brad Hatfield, Greg Hopkins, Paul Horn, Steve Hunt, Illinois Jaquette, Clay Jenkins, Randy Johnston, Stacy Kent, Dave Kikowski, Bob Kindred, Alain Mallett, Kitty Margolis, Dmitri Matheny, Mel Martin, Jimmy Maxwell, Jimmy McPartland, John Medeski, Mike Metheny, Gunnar Mossblad, Abe Most, Sal Nistico, Ken Peplowski, Enrico Pieranunzi, Tim Ray, Kim Richmond, Scott Robinson, Matt Rollings, Ted Rosenthal, Claudio Roditi, Ali Ryerson, Randy Sandke, Gray Sargent, Carl Saunders, George Schuller, Bud Shank, Dee Sharp, John Stowell, Dave Stryker, Tierney Sutton, Lew Tabackin, Michal Urbaniak, Alan Vache, Frank Vignola, Ben Wittman Blues, R&B, Country, Rock, Pop Johnny Adams, Little Frankie Blandino, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Sax Gordon Beadle, Lew Christie, The Drifters, Mighty Sam McClain, The Cornell Hurd Band, Linda Hopkins, The Ink Spots, Bruce Katz, Jim Kelly, Robert Junior Lockwood, David Maxwell, The Marvellettes, The Platters, Annie Raines, Marty Richards, Paul Rishell, Martha & The Vandellas, Barrence Whitfield and The Savages, Mike Williams. Show Biz, etc. All Night Strut, Anna Maria Alberghetti, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, The Opera Company Of Boston, Ann Hampton-Calloway, Liz Calloway, Dianne Carroll, Vic Damone, Disney Symphonic Fantasy, 42nd Street, The New Christy Minstrels, Nite Club Confidential, Little Shop Of Horrors, Georgie Jessell, Mama Mia, Al Martino, Tony Martin, Susan Sommers, Tiny Tim, Demond Wilson, Stars Of The Lawrence Welk Show My Life In A Nutshell "I started out like a lot of kids playing guitar. In 1969, The Johnny Cash Show was on tv, and his hit "A Boy Named Sue" just grabbed me. Not the best tune in his repertoire perhaps, but I've always had a thing for humor in music. Every week I watched as Johnny spun around, hit a C chord and said - "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash". I knew right away that I was going to be a musician. Guitar led to acoustic bass in 7th grade, I already knew the strings, so it didn't take long to figure out where the notes were. I started taking lessons from Marvin Toplosky of the Metropolitan Opera symphony at age 13. I used to take the subway from Queens to Port Authority in Manhattan, take a bus, then walk about a mile to his house. He taught me things that have stuck with me to this very day, and I still have the German bow he sold me for $60. I went to the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, played in the orchestra and took my first jazz classes there.

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