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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Splendor in the Grass Plus The Manchurian Candidate (Original Soundtracks)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei The Sound of the Screen am 17.03.2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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On The Waterfront: On Broadway (Original Broadway Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Varese Sarabande am 01.01.1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
At Home / Around The World
World Music - Erschienen bei Flying Fish am 01.01.1980
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 - Erschienen bei Flying Fish am 01.01.1977
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Never Too Many Sunsets: Three Generations
David Amram, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina
Elektronische Musik oder Musique concrète - Erschienen bei sonaBLAST! Records am 17.08.2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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The Chamber Music of David Amram
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Urlicht am 18.05.2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Pull My Daisy (Live)
David Amram, David Amram Quartet
Jazz - Erschienen bei Bridge Records am 26.09.1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Live in Germany (1954-2013)
Jazz - Erschienen bei After The Fall Records am 16.03.2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dangerland (Love People Not Guns)
Pop - Erschienen bei EARecords am 15.03.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Jazz Portrait
Jazz - Erschienen bei Fresh Sound Records am 01.12.2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Manchurian Candidate Theme (From "The Manchurian Candidate" Original Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Soundtrack Records am 28.02.2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Manchurian Candidate (Original Soundtrack Theme)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Soundtrack Records am 10.07.2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Young Savages (Soundtrack "Harold's Way")
Pop - Erschienen bei JB Production CH am 21.02.2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Some Soul From Seoul (Manchurian Candidate Soundtrack (1962))
Pop - Erschienen bei JB Production CH am 04.08.2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo