Recorded with the bands of Lionel Hampton,
Oscar Pettiford, Charles Mingus, Mary Lou Williams, Kenny Dorham & TV Specials with Dizzy
Gillespie.
1st Composer-in-Residence with the N.Y.
Philharmonic (1966-67) at invitation of L. Bernstein.
Composed, Orchestrated & Conducted
Original Scores for Films, "Manchurian Candidate,"
"Splendor in the Grass" &
"Young Savages" (1960-62).
Pioneer of World Music since the late 1950s.
Music Director for past 26 years of Brooklyn
Philharmonic's "Young Peoples & Parks
Concerts," combining Jazz, Latin & World Music
with the Symphony, as Conductor,
Narrator & Soloist.
Chosen for Historic First Concert by American
Musicians in Havana, Cuba (1977) with
Dizzy Gillespie, Earl "Fatha" Hines & Stan Getz.
Sanctioned by U.S. State Dept.
Played 1st Jazz-Poetry Readings in N.Y.C.
with Jack Kerouac, 1957.
"DAVID AMRAM IS ONE OF THE MOST
VERSATILE & SKILLED MUSICIANS
AMERICA
HAS EVER PRODUCED..."
--WASHINGTON POST, SEPTEMBER 95