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David Amram

David Amram - composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist A pioneer player of jazz French horn, DavidAmram is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966, Langston Hughes, Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, E. G. Marshall, and Tito Puente

Hal Willner's Rock 'n' Rota

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Anyone who has ever been at an all-star event--especially if that was a tribute concert--has learned the importance of Aristotle's maxim the hard way. Maybe the occasion was momentous, the cast probably star-studded, the heart certainly in the right place and the expectations high... however, at ...

David Amram 87th Birthday Celebration at the Falcon

By MIKE JURKOVIC

David Amram Quartet The Falcon87th Birthday Celebration Marlboro, NY December 3, 2017 Ever a celebration of our true angel hearts and creative selves, David Amram's irrepressible spirit (he did turn 87 on November 17th) and margin-mashing musical journey (Phil Och's “When I'm Gone" as a sweet jazz standard anyone?) ...

Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part II: New York

By KARL ACKERMANN

Jazz didn't abandon jny: Chicago but its further development only began to take on a distinct personality in the 1960s. By the late 1920s, the next phase of the jazz scene had shifted from Chicago to New York though, initially, there was no red carpet rolled out. As jazz bands made their way to New York ...

Classic American Film Scores 1956-2016

By DAVID AMRAM

Label: Moochin' About
Released: 2016
Track listing:
CD 1:
Theme from the Manchurian Candidate (Jazz Version); Cantina Latina; Theme from the Manchurian Candidate (Orchestral Version); Queen Of Diamonds; John Birch Lurch (Politicians On Parade); Unrequited Love; Slightly Manchurian Blues; Dare to Dream; Home Again 1952; A Night in the Garden; Some Soul from Seoul; Summer Affair/Wiggin' Out in Central Park; Return of a Hero; Theme & Finale.
CD 2:
Theme Music from Splendor in the Grass; The Bash Before the Crash; High School Prom Dance 1925; Everybody's Wild About Mabel; Kansas 1920; One More Dance; Splendor in the Grass; Anatolia; Love Is Never Out of Style; Mountain Snow; Sunny Days; Blue Tomorrow; Zephyr March of the Nicotine Fields; Old Country Soul; Other Dreams; Childhood Dreams; Definitely Blue; Ancestral Dreams; Kazoo Story; Anatolia.
CD 3:
Pull My Daisy (Film); Pull My Daisy (Vocals - Lynn Sheffield); Las Muchachas Delicadas; Switchblades on Parade; Harold's Way Out; Subway Sounds; True Blue; Funeral March and Requiem; The Last Taco; Rooftops; Later with the Elevator; Help!; Theme from the Young Savages; Echo of an Era.
CD 4:
Waltz from After the Fall; Act I: Prologue; Blues on the Waterfront; Dare to Dream; Mas Mano; Neighbourhood Dreams; All My Love; Act 2: Prologue; Muy Caliente; Rooftops of New York; Epilogue.
CD 5:
Prologue; Joan's Theme; Descaraga; Blue Monday (Viola & Piano); Funky Sax; Joan's Theme (String Version); Steak House; Sailing Past a Buoy Montage; Monastery; String Quartet & Pizzicato; Death Scene I; Blue Monday; Fast Blues; Escape; Guitar Duo; Dixie in New York; Death Scene II; Blue Monday (Swing); Take oh... take thy lips Away; Sermon; Dance.

David Amram: Classic American Film Scores 1956-2016

By ALBERTO BAZZURRO

Nato a Filadelfia nel 1930, David Amram è una figura tutto sommato non particolarmente nota nel vasto panorama del jazz legato al lavoro negli studios cinematografici, per cui assolutamente benemerito arriva questo box, da lui fortemente voluto, che ne riunisce organicamente le colonne sonore (non tutte, ma una significativa selezione) per cinema e -più episodicamente -teatro. ...

Fazil Say al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

By CLAUDIO BONOMI

Fazil Say Aperitivo in concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 20.03.2016 Fazil Say, compositore e pianista turco di fama internazionale, ha chiuso in bellezza la 31° edizione di Aperitivo in Concerto al Teatro Manzoni a Milano. Un'edizione caratterizzata da alcuni personaggi di culto della musica del nostro tempo, da Marc ...

David Amram Quintet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

By CLAUDIO BONOMI

Aperitivo in Concerto, Teatro Manzoni -Milano 28.02.2016 86 anni e non sentirli. È David Amram, leggenda vivente della musica americana contemporanea, che con il suo quintetto ha intrattenuto e deliziato per circa due ore un Teatro Manzoni stracolmo di appassionati che non volevano perdersi la prima ...

Sheila Jordan: Now's The Time

By IAN PATTERSON

Sheila Jordan, one of the last great jazz vocalists from the bebop era turns eighty six on 18 November. Happy Birthday Sheila! There's much to celebrate. The Pennsylvanian-born singer's remarkable life story has just been published--the first complete biography to cover Jordan's life and career in detail. Written by Ellen Johnson over seven years, Jazz Child: ...