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SEPTEMBER:

MASTER'S BAND with Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Billy Drummond at Birdland, NYC

 

DAVE LIEBMAN GROUP AT:

-the COTA Festival, Delaware Water Gap, PA

 

-55 Bar, NYC

 

-Scullers, Boston, MA

 

-the Falcon, Marlboro, NYC

 

-the Turning Point, Piermont, NY

 

-Anthology, San Diego, CA

 

-Vitellos, Los Angeles, CA

 

-Bach Dancing Society, Half Moon Bay, CA

 

-Yoshis, Oakland, CA

 

-Kuumbwa Jazz Society, Santa Cruz, CA

 

OCTOBER:

DAVE LIEBMAN GROUP AT:

 

-Jimmy Macks, Portland, OR

 

-Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, VT

 

- One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME

 

CELEBRATION OF NEA MASTER'S AWARD AND THE DAVE LIEBMAN BIG BAND AT:

 

-Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA

 

DAVE LIEBMAN BIG BAND RECORD RELEASE (AS ALWAYS-MAMA RECORDS) AT:

 

-Iridium, NYC

 

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHAMBER JAZZ ENSEMBLE FEATURING DAVE LIEBMAN PERFORMING MUSIC PREMIERED AT THE CITE DE MUSIQUE, PARIS,FRANCE (2009) BY THE ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN (PIERRE BOULEZ GROUP)

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David Liebman is considered a renaissance man in contemporary music with a career stretching over forty years. He has played with many of the masters including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, McCoy Tyner and others; authored books and instructional DVDs which are acknowledged as classics in the jazz field; recorded as a leader in styles ranging from classical to rock to free jazz; recipient of the NEA Masters of Jazz award; founded the International Association of Schools of Jazz; a multiple Grammy nominee; an inductee into the International Association of Jazz Educator's Hall of Fame; the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, as well as the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government. He has consistently placed among the top finalists in the Soprano Saxophone category in the Downbeat Critics Poll since 1973 and has to his credit over 100 recordings as a leader/co-leader including several hundred original compositions.

 

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FROM LIEB:

Hello to you all and welcome to my web site. Besides the usual publicity material, itineraries and available products which one normally encounters on artist web sites, over the years I have tried to make this site into a repository of information about jazz for those who are seriously interested in the art form. Specifically, past newsletters, educational articles, private archive recordings, photos and interviews should be of particular interest. As a result of over forty years of being a jazz artist, there is a lot of information here. Please check the itinerary monthly and my Intervals blog bi-monthly. Feel free to contact me for any specific musical questions. Enjoy!!

 

“Liebman is among the most important saxophonists in contemporary music . . . a leader and artist of integrity and independent direction.”
 - Leonard Feather – Downbeat

“He's completely inside the instrument and the result is a forceful complexity that no one, with the possible exception of John Coltrane, has been able to match.”
- Neil Tesser – Chicago Tribune

 

 

On How It Feels To Play
By Dave Liebman

"What does it feel like when you are in the vortex, the eye of the hurricane? To me it is aptly put by the French; you are (at least temporarily) "Le Roi du Monde."  For those moments when I (as a horn player) am playing in front of a good rhythm section, I am simply "the king of the world"--everything is perfect!! One is in complete control; you can do whatever you want within that space inhabited at the moment. You are truly the master of the universe...not the cliche.. the real deal! Getting to that place takes years of experience and observing those who are ahead of you on line. There is a confidence, an unseen swagger, an assertiveness (even if the music is gentle). It's so good that all you want is to repeat it... like a junkie...hooked forever. "