About the Artists

David Amram

One of the greatest living proponents of the art of music, David Amram symbolizes excellence and creativity in Jazz, Classical, Folk, Latin, and film scores, opera and musical theater. He has collaborated with Woody Guthrie, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Pepper Adams, Levon Helm, James Gallway, Betty Carter, poets Alan Ginsburg, Langston Hughes, Lawrence Ferlangheti and Jack Kerouac to name a few as composer and performing artist on french horn, flute, keyboards and other instruments. The film “Pull My Daisy” documents the fusion of literary, music and film arts spearheaded by this amazing artist. He is the recipient of six honorary doctorate degrees and numerous other prestigious awards and recognitions.

In the early 1950s David was encouraged to pursue his unique path by mentors Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and performed on many important Jazz recordings as sideman and under his name. He also collaborated with Aaron Copland, Gunther Schuller, and visual artists Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Today, as he has for over 60 years, Amram continues to compose music while traveling the world as a conductor, soloist, bandleader, author, visiting scholar, social activist and narrator in five languages.

In 1971 his record “No More Walls” represented a ground breaking fusion of genres. This release on Flying Fish was the first in a series of recordings including his “Triple Concerto” and “Latin Jazz Celebration”.

He is actively releasing new recordings and composing new works today as well. His latest on Affetto record label is David Amram – “So In America” – Selected Chamber Music (1958-2017).

Also he recently released  “David Amram Jazz on Film”, Classic American Film Scores which highlights his work in film and theater, and in 2015 the Colorado Symphony Orchestra recorded David’s concerto “THIS LAND: Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie.”

A legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist,  David Amram cannot be easily defined. Always ahead of his time and immersed in jazz, folk, world music, film and theater music, as well as in contemporary classical music, he was praised by The Washington Post as “one of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever produced”, while The Boston Globe hailed him as “the Renaissance man of American music”, and The New York Times proclaimed him “multicultural before multiculturalism existed”. Being first and being ahead of his time comes naturally to David Amram – a pioneer of the jazz French Horn who simultaneously amassed the highest number of performances of the Brahms Horn Trio, while fascinating crowds at folk and world music festivals.  He has written several books, composed scores for films and plays, as well as over 100 works for symphony, opera and chamber ensembles. He tours worldwide, and has collaborated with iconic figures like Elia Kazan, Pete Seeger, Paquito D’Rivera and Tito Puente. Amram’s legacy is varied and vast, establishing him as one of the most eclectic composers of our time and as a source of inspiration for generations to come.

Hugh Ragin, trumpet

Tony Black, drums

Artie Moore, bass

David Amram and Friends

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | 7:30 PM

Tickets

Dazzle at Baur’s
1512 Curtis Street
Denver, CO 80204

*Seating will be first come, first seated.

Videos

An Interview with David Amram – Milken Archive of Jewish Music

David’s Amram’s Blog

THIS LAND with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

AllMusic Discography

David Amram’s Wikipedia Article