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| 1. | American Dance Suite
Cheyenne
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| 2. | American Dance Suite
Blues
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| 3. | American Dance Suite
Cajon
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| 4. | Theme & Variations on "Red River Valley"
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| 5. | Travels for trumpet & orchestra
Taos
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| 6. | Travels for trumpet & orchestra
Blues and Variations
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| 7. | Travels for trumpet & orchestra
Taxim
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| 8. | Songs (3) for America for bass voice, woodwind quintet & string quintet
Text by John F. Kennedy
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| 9. | Songs (3) for America for bass voice, woodwind quintet & string quintet
Text by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| 10. | Songs (3) for America for bass voice, woodwind quintet & string quintet
Text by Robert F. Kennedy
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Classical
Four heartfelt, exuberantly tonal works on a Newport Classic CD catch us up with Amram's pursuit of folkloric music. He's focusing on America here, the jewel being Theme and Variations on the traditional ''Red River Valley" (1991) ... Two sumptuous three-movement suites with elegiac blues sections at their centers pack constant surprises. There's an American Dance Suite (1986) with Cheyenne and Cajun inspirations, glowing and organically spontaneous. Travels for Trumpet and Orchestra (1989), with Taos (Pueblo Indian) and Taxim (middle Eastern) influences, pack a wealth of flowing rhythms into its journey... The disc winds up with Three Songs for America (1969), plaintive and relatively traditional settings of texts by JFK, MLK, Jr., and RFK. All four works are sympathetically played by the very impressive Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, led by Richard Auldon Clark. Amram is a genuine original; he communicates honestly, unafraid of using jazz, ethnicity, or simple exuberance as legitimate materials... Tom Di Nardo, Philadelphia Daily News
David Amram
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Nov 17, 1930 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: World Fusion, Bop, Latin Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
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.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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