David Amram
Musical compartments mean nothing to David Amram, whose compositions and activities have crossed fearlessly back and forth between the classical and jazz worlds, as well as those of Latin jazz, folk, television, and film music. In addition to his rare (to jazz) specialty, the French horn, Amram has also recorded on piano, recorder, Spanish guitar, and various percussion instruments.
Amram spent a year at the Oberlin College Conservatory (1948) but graduated from George Washington University with a B.A. in history in 1952. His long association with Latin music began in 1951 in D.C. when he played horn and percussion in the Buddy Rowell Latin band while also serving as a classical horn player in the National Symphony Orchestra. Stationed with the Seventh Army in Europe, Amram recorded with Lionel Hampton in Paris in 1955, and then returned to New York later that year to join Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop, performing with Mingus and Oscar Pettiford. Amram led a quartet with tenor saxophonist George Barrow that made an album for Decca in 1957 and later played regularly at New York's Five Spot in 1963-1965. However, Amram's career gravitated mostly over to the classical side after the 1950s, producing orchestral and instrumental pieces, incidental music (his score for Archibald MacLeish's J.B. won a Pulitzer prize), and other works which attracted enough respect to have the New York Philharmonic sign him on as its first composer-in-residence (1966-1967).
In 1977, Amram sailed on the cruise ship Daphne from New Orleans to Havana with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, and Earl "Fatha" Hines, who were among the first U.S. citizens to legally visit Cuba in 16 years. An exciting live recording of Amram's "En Memoria de Chano Pozo" was made in Havana with members of Irakere (including Arturo Sandoval and Paquito D'Rivera) and several visiting Americans, which can be heard on the album Havana/New York (Flying Fish). Amram's Cuban visit received extensive news coverage at the time and also provided many Americans with their first glimpse of Irakere.
Most of Amram's available recordings can also be found on Flying Fish. In addition, the open-minded Amram can be heard playing bouncy French horn, recorder, and piano obligatos on some bizarre 1971 tracks by beat poet Allen Ginsberg (sample titles: "Vomit Express" and "Going to San Diego"), later released on John Hammond's eponymous label.
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Discographie
16 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Splendor in the Grass Plus The Manchurian Candidate (Original Soundtracks)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez The Sound of the Screen le 17 mars 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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On The Waterfront: On Broadway (Original Broadway Soundtrack)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Varese Sarabande le 1 janv. 1995
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At Home / Around The World
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Flying Fish le 1 janv. 1980
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
David Amram: Triple Concerto & Elegy for Violin and Orchestra
David Amram, The David Amram Jazz Quintet, Howard Weiss, David Zinman, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Jazz - Paru chez Flying Fish le 1 janv. 1977
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Never Too Many Sunsets: Three Generations
David Amram, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina
Électronique ou concrète - Paru chez sonaBLAST! Records le 17 août 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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The Chamber Music of David Amram
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Urlicht le 18 mai 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Pull My Daisy (Live)
David Amram, David Amram Quartet
Jazz - Paru chez Bridge Records le 26 sept. 1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Live in Germany (1954-2013)
Jazz - Paru chez After The Fall Records le 16 mars 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dangerland (Love People Not Guns)
Pop - Paru chez EARecords le 15 mars 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Jazz Portrait
Jazz - Paru chez Fresh Sound Records le 1 déc. 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Manchurian Candidate Theme (From "The Manchurian Candidate" Original Soundtrack)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Soundtrack Records le 28 févr. 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Manchurian Candidate (Original Soundtrack Theme)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Soundtrack Records le 10 juil. 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Young Savages (Soundtrack "Harold's Way")
Pop - Paru chez JB Production CH le 21 févr. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Some Soul From Seoul (Manchurian Candidate Soundtrack (1962))
Pop - Paru chez JB Production CH le 4 août 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo