Peter Friedman

Don Bennett Trio - Solar

Berwald - Duo for Violin & Piano , Septet, String Quartet

Disc 2

String Quintet in F Major

Cafe Bohemia NYC July 13, 1957 Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor This was broadcast and a recording made.

I am sorry to hear that sad news. Two recollections I have of Lennie Niehaus. I was a Freshman at Michigan State University when the Stan Kenton Band came to Lansing,MI for a one nighter.I made sure I was there right in front. Lennie was in the band along with Charlie Mariano, Bill Perkins, Sam Noto, Mel Lewis and others I don't recall. Much more recently (?), I saw Lennie at a Ken Poston jazz event in Los Angeles. Not sure what year, but it had to be roughly 15 years ago. Always loved Lennie's small group recordings on Contemporary , and his one on Mercury. His 2 Fresh Sound records from 1989 and 1997 were good, but not at the level of the earlier ones on Contemporary

Peter Sommer Quintet - With Rich Perry, Richard Gunnison, Ken Walker & Todd Reid

I have those Bob Kindred CDs and do enjoy them. It was about 15 years ago that I saw Bob Kindred play at a Jazz Party. I was not familiar with him, and was surprised by his wonderful tenor saxophone playing. His playing was very much in the style of Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. I wondered why he had recorded so little as his playing was at a very high level ?