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"The Boston Globe has described David Amram as "the Renaissance man of American music". Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever Jazz poetry reading in New York City in 1957 as well as the subsequent legendary film "Pull My Daisy" in 1959, which "I jammed with Monk and Bird and played and recorded with the bands of Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Lionel Hampton, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham and many great players at venues that were often attended by just a handful of people." -David Amram "I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era." -David Amram "Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics." -David Amram "Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special." -David Amram "I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last." -David Amram "In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead." -David Amram "In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change." -David Amram "Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture." -David Amram "That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there." -David Amram "That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music." -David Amram "The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in." -David Amram "The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty." -David Amram "The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us." -David Amram "There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them." -David Amram
"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life."
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"When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers." -David Amram "When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously." -David Amram
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David Amram BiographyDavid Amram (born November 17, 1930 in Philadelphia) is an American composer, musician and writer. His eclectic use of jazz, ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Leonard Bernstein and Jack Kerouac throughout the course of his career. He was appointed composer-in-residence to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1966-7 season. Life Shortly before his seventh birthday Amram and his family moved to a farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, who had been active in early American Zionist circles and had spent considerable time in Palestine, taught him basic Hebrew. His father introduced him to cantorial music and classical music. Amram's uncle loved jazz, introducing him to recordings of great jazz artists, and took him to see many of those artists in person. At the age of seven, Amram began piano lessons, experimenting with trumpet and tuba before settling on the French horn. In 1948 he spent a year at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but earned a bachelor's degree in European history from George Washington University in 1952. During those years, Amram was an extra horn player with the National Symphony. Amram spent 1952-1954 with the United States Army in Europe, playing with the Seventh Army Symphony. While stationed In Paris for a year, Amram devoted himself to composition, and played with Lionel Hampton's band and other jazz groups. Amram returned to the United States in 1955, attending the Manhattan School of Music. During that time he supported himself by playing with Charles Mingus at Café Bohemia and Oscar Pettiford at Birdland. He also led his own jazz group at the Five Spot Café on the Bowery. In 1959 Amram wrote music for and acted in, "Pull My Daisy", a film created and narrated by Jack Kerouac. The film featured other Beat Generation writers, including Allen Ginsberg. Discography
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combined Amram's jazz and chamber music and Kerouac's narration. Not only part of what came to be known as the Beat generation, Amram has also composed over 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two operas, and has collaborated with such notables as Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonius Monk, Willie Nelson, Betty Carter, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, and Tito Puente." 
"That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done." -David Amram 
"We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings."
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