David Amram has been making music for a long time--seventy-two years to be exact!
In the 1950’s, he was part of the Jazz Poetry movement of Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsburg, William Burroughs, etc. By 1968, he was Leonard Bernstein’s Composer in Residence with the New York Philharmonic. He has scored several films (Pull my Daisy, Splendor in the Grass, Manchurian Candidate), composed dozens of symphonic and jazz works, and has also played with many of the legends of the jazz world.
“David Amram is one of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever produced” (Washington Post).
"Amram may be able to play more types of music than any other man. He is a relentless pied-piper of pan cultural persuasiveness, leading listeners into a global circle that brings all peoples together." (Milwaukee Journal)
"Amram dazzled with his versatility ... One could be but awed by his range ... Amram was constantly enlightening." (The London Times)
