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David Amram (born November 17, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American composer, musician, and writer. He has collaborated with several artists such as Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Leonard Bernstein, and Jack Kerouac.

Father of Alana Amram, Adam Amram, and Adira Amram

ALBUMS

Live In Germany 1954-2013

2022, LP, Comp, Ltd, After The Fall Records

Karen McLaughlin Large, Amanda Arrington With Special Guest David Amram

Wanderlust: The Flute Music Of David Amram

2020, CD, Album, Blue Griffin Recording

So In America: Selected Chamber Music Compositions 1958-2017

2018, CD, Album, Affetto Recordings

Eric Mingus, David Amram, Larry Simon, Groove Bacteria

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

2017, CD, Album, Mode Avant,

Music For Splendor In The Grass / The Manchurian Candidate

2017, 2xCD, Comp, RE, RM, Soundtrack Factory

David Amram's Classic American Film Scores 1956~2016

2016, 5xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Moochin' About,

David Amram, Ken Radnofsky*

Ode To Lord Buckley

2014, CD, Album, Newport Classic

The Music Of David Amram / Jazz Portrait

2007, CD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records

Symphony - Songs Of The Soul

2004, CD, Album, Naxos

Southern Stories

1999, CD, Album, Chrome Records (2)

David Amram, The David Amram Jazz Quintet*, Howard Weiss (2), David Zinman, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Triple Concerto

1998, CD, Album, RE, Flying Fish (2),

David Amram With Pepper Adams, Jerry Dodgion, Candido, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, George Mrgdichian*, Ali Hafid*

1997, CD, Album, RE, Flying Fish (2),

Afro-Cuban Jazz

Antonín Dvořák, David Amram, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "from New World" / Amram: Kokopelli

1997, CD, Album, Magnatone Records,

Romantic/Classical

The Manchurian Candidate (Complete Soundtrack Recording)

Copland* • Harbison* • Amram* • Rorem* - Atlanta Chamber Players

Conversations: A 20th Anniversary Salute To American Composers

1996, CD, Album, aca Digital Recording

The Final Ingredient: An Opera Of The Holocaust In One Act

1996, CD, Album, Premier Recordings

David Amram / Charles Castleman, Nathaniel Rosen, Kenneth Pasmanick, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra*, Richard Auldon Clark

Three Concertos

1995, CD, Album, Newport Classic

On The Waterfront On Broadway (Original Broadway Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Musical/Score

Jack Kerouac & David Amram, David Amram Quartet

Pull My Daisy ... And Other Jazz Classics

An American Original

1993, CD, Album, Newport Classic

Paul Chihara, David Amram, The Louisville Orchestra

Concerto For Saxophone And Orchestra / Ode To Lord Buckley

1985, LP, Album, First Edition Records

The Cantilena Chamber Players* - Siegmeister* / Amram* / Kupferman* / Feldman* / Orgad* / Partos* / Kopytman* / Hajdu*

Songs Of Experience / Portraits / Abracadabra / Four Instruments / Shaar Shaar / Piano Quartet / About An Old Tune / Five Sketches In A Sentimental Mood

1979, 2xLP, Grenadilla Records

Havana/New York

Summer Nights, Winter Rain

1976, LP, RCA Victor

1976, 7", Single, Promo, RCA Victor

What Is An Amram?

1974, LP, S/Sided, Promo, RCA

The Fabulous Fifties

1973, 7", Single, Mono, Promo, RCA

Pop Rock/Jazz-Rock/Psychedelic/Country Rock

Neo-Classical/Afro-Cuban Jazz

String Quartet / Quintet For Winds

1969, LP, Not On Label

The Arrangement (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)

David Amram, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Texas Southern University Choir*

A Year In Our Land

1968, LP, Not On Label

The Final Ingredient

1965, 2xLP, Not On Label

David Amram, Midhat Serbagi, Ronald Roseman, John Barrows, Daniel Cowan*, Maurice Peress, John Perrass

Shakespearean Concerto & Lysistrata

1965, LP, Not On Label,

David Amram, Harold Aks, Interracial Chorale & Orchestra

A Year In Our Land

1965, LP, Not On Label

David Amram, Oakland Symphony Orchestra, Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus, Gerhard Samuel

Let Us Remember

1965, 10", Not On Label

Shir L'Erev Shabbat (Sacred Service For The Sabbath Eve)

1962, LP, Not On Label

The Young Savages (An Original Sound Track Recording)

Pepper Adams, Cecil Payne, Julius Watkins, Dave Amram*

Modern Jazz Survey 2 / Baritones & French Horns

1958, LP, Mono, Prestige,

David Amram - Albert Mangelsdorff Group

David Amram - Albert Mangelsdorff Group

1954, 7", EP, Ace, Presto (2),

Sonata For Violin & Piano / Trio For Tenor Saxophone, French Horn And Bassoon

LP, Album, Not On Label

Piano Sonata / Dirge & Variations

LP, Album, Not On Label

String Quartet The Beaux Arts

Acetate, LP, Not On Label

Dirge And Variations

LP, S/Sided, Not On Label

LP, Album, Not On Label

David Amram, Ron Whitehead, Lee Ranaldo, Richard Lee Martin, Casey Cyr, Albert Kausch, Steve Dalachinsky

CD, EP, Promo, Calque Cinema, Hozomeen Press,

Spoken Word/Free Jazz

The London Pops*, Fred Hersch, David Amram

From London To Broadway

David Amram, Elmira Darvarova, Tomoko Kanamaru, Carol Wincenc, Hsin-Chiao Liao, Howard Wall (2), Ekayani Chamberlin, Adira Amram, Douglas Yeager, Face The Music Ensemble*, The New York Piano Quartet*, The David Amram Quartet*

The Chamber Music Of David Amram Live At The New York Chamber Music Festival

CDr, Urlicht Audio Visual

Curse (29) With Special Guests David Amram And Marc Ribot

Pull My Daisy • Graveyard Shuffle

CD, EP, Not On Label (Curse (29) Self-released)

Hannibal Marvin Peterson & The Sunrise Orchestra , Conducted By David Ambam*

Children Of The Fire

David Amram, Midhat Serbagi, Ronald Roseman, John Barrows, Danny Cowan, Maurice Peress, Mitchell Andrews

Shakespearean Concerto

Dirge & Variations / Sonata For Violin & Piano

The Manchurian Candidate (Music From The Motion Picture)

David Amram And Friends

At Home / Around The World

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Latin Jazz/Cool Jazz

David Amram Quartet

Live At Musikfest!

1990, CD, Album, New Chamber Music, Inc.

David Amram Quartet

Live At Musikfest!

1990, Cass, Album, Dol, New Chamber Music, Inc.

David Amram And Friends

Latin-Jazz Celebration

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Interview/Charanga

David Amram Quintet

Triple Concerto For Woodwind, Brass, Jazz Quintets And Orchestra

The Amram-Barrow Quartet

The Eastern Scene

Oscar Pettiford Orchestra

Lionel Hampton And His French New Sound

Lionel Hampton And His French New Sound Vol. 1

Lionel Hampton And His French New Sound

Lionel Hampton And His French New Sound Vol. 2

APPEARANCES +

Greenwich Village

2008, DVDr, World Spirit

Material Wealth

2024, CD, Album, heyday AGAIN,

Poetry/Political/Soundtrack/Spoken Word

Swimming Through Water

2022, CDr, Album, Boo, La Finestra

Eight Classic Albums

2020, 4xCD, Comp, Enlightenment (3),

Alternative Facts & Other White Lies

2020, CD, Album, Not On Label (Mike & Aleksi Glick Self-released)

Horn Monologues

2020, CD, Album, Affetto Recordings,

Elmira Darvarova, Howard Wall

American Music For Violin And Horn

2020, CD, Album, Affetto Recordings,

Modern/Contemporary

The Complete Albums 1953-1959

2019, 4xCD, Comp, Enlightenment (3),

Elmira Darvarova, Howard Wall

Music From Five Centuries: 17th C. - 21st C.

2019, 2xCD, Album, Affetto Recordings

Oscar Pettiford, Nonet* / Big Band* / Sextet*

New York City 1955 - 1958

2017, 2xCD, Uptown Records (2),

University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble, Scott Weiss (3), Clifford Leaman, Scott Herring & John Parks

2016, CD, Album, Summit Records (3)

Clifford Leaman, Joseph Rackers

Lessons Of The Sky

2016, CD, Album, Equilibrium,

Roots Music Made In Brooklyn

Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village In The 1960s

Just For The Love Of It

2015, CD, Lark's Nest Music

2015, CD, Album, Revelator Music

Sal Salvador And His Colors In Sound Orchestra*

Complete Recordings 1958 - 1964

2015, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Fresh Sound Records,

Time And The River

2015, Vinyl 180 Gram,

2014, CD, Album, Not On Label (Barry Ollman Self-released)

European Cool Jazz 1951-1959

2014, 2xCD, Comp, Frémeaux & Associés,

Brass Carnival & Tribute!

2013, CD, Album, Not On Label,

Brass Band/Jazz-Funk/Afro-Cuban Jazz

A Taste Of Honey! & Another Taste Of Honey!

2012, CD, Comp, RM, Vocalion,

Easy Listening/Space-Age/Pacific

Martha Redbone Roots Project

The Garden Of Love - Songs Of William Blake

2012, CD, Album, Dig, Blackfeet Records

Eight Classic Albums

Loudon Wainwright III

Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited

2011, 2xCD, Comp, RE, T-Bird, T-Bird,

Noah Getz, Andrew Simpson*

2011, CD, Album, Albany Records

Pete Seeger With The Rivertown Kids

Tomorrow's Children

2010, CD, Album, Appleseed Recordings

The Clearwater Concert: Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration From Madison Square Garden

2009, DVD-V, Not On Label,

2009, CD, Album, Smalls Records,

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard*

One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur

2009, Vinyl, DVD All Region,

Folk Rock/Acoustic/Country Rock/Soundtrack

The Crow (New Songs For The Five-String Banjo)

2009, CD Deluxe Packaging,

Oscar Pettiford

Oscar Rides Again

2008, 4xCD, Comp, Ltd, Proper Records (2),

Bop/Big Band/Cool Jazz/Swing

Frank Messina (3) & Ron Whitehead

2007, CD, Album, Not On Label,

Zina Schiff, Cameron Grant

Elijah's Violin

2005, CD, Album, 4 Tay Inc

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pictures of the Gone World

2005, CD, Album, Bon, Gallery Six, Synergy Entertainment,

Poetry/Spoken Word

Jazz Studio 5/6: Complete Sessions

2004, CD, Comp, Lone Hill Jazz,

James MacDonald

French Horn sans frontières

2004, CD, Album, Not On Label

Suzzy* & Maggie Roche

Why The Long Face

Folk Rock/Acoustic

Days Like These

The Best Of The Beat Generation

2002, CD, Comp, Rhino Records (2),

Spoken Word/Poetry/Comedy/Cool Jazz/Bop

Classic Jazz: The Fifties - Take Two

2002, 2xCD, Comp, Time Life Music, Universal Music Special Markets,

IUP Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp

Internal Combustion

2001, CD, Klavier Records

2000, 2xCD, Comp, Recall 2cd, Snapper Music,

Bobby Jaspar Featuring Dave Amram

1999, CD, Comp, BMG France,

Jack Kerouac Reads On The Road

If I Had A Hammer: Songs Of Hope & Struggle

1998, HDCD, Comp, Smithsonian Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways

Kent L. Leslie*

The Glass Bead Game

1998, CD, Hard Cor Music

The Gentle Art Of Love

Principal Horn, New York Philharmonic

Crime Jazz: Music In The First Degree

1997, CD, Comp, RM, Rhino Records (2), BMG Special Products,

Big Band/Score/Theme/Cool Jazz

Latin Jazz/Easy Listening/Exotica

Bop/Hard Bop/Modal/Post Bop

The Easter Tapes

1996, CD, Album, Red Pajama Records,

Jazz Goes To Hollywood

The Boehm Quintette

American Winds, Volume Two (Jam Session)

1994, CD, Premier Recordings,

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra*

Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs 1949-1993

Art Rock/Poetry/Spoken Word/Contemporary Jazz

The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks

1992, 3x CD, Box Set,

Hard Bop/Big Band/Easy Listening

The Beat Generation

1992, 3x CD, Box Set,

Spoken Word/Bop/Field Recording/Big Band/Interview/Cool Jazz

Lonesome Boulevard

Night And Day - The Cole Porter Songbook

Hard Bop/Easy Listening

Celebrating A Jazz Master: Thelonious Sphere Monk

1986, Laserdisc, 12", Album, NTSC, CLV, Pioneer Artists,

The Charlie Byrd Trio* And The Annapolis Brass Quintet

Tribute To Steve Goodman

1985, 2x Vinyl,

Country Rock/Chicago Blues/Folk/Bluegrass/Ballad/Electric Blues

That's The Way I Feel Now - A Tribute To Thelonious Monk

1983, LP, Album, Giorno Poetry Systems,

1983, 2x Vinyl,

Texas Folk & Outlaw Music (Kerrville Festivals 1972-1976)

Kerrville Folk Festival 1978

1982, LP, Album, Kerrville Folk Festival

Kerrville Folk Festival 1979

1982, LP, Album, Ltd, Kerrville Folk Festival

Kerrville Folk Festival 1980

1982, LP, Album, Ltd, Kerrville Folk Festival,

Folk/Louisiana Blues/Piano Blues/Celtic/Acoustic/Bluegrass/Gospel

Polyphonix 1 (Première Anthologie Sonore)

Amarcord Nino Rota

Jerry Jeff Walker

Too Old To Change

Great Warner Bros. Love Themes

1978, Vinyl Santa Maria Pressing,

The Brass Guild

1977, LP, Album, Grenadilla Records

Say It In Private

1977, Vinyl PRC,

1976, LP, Album, Adelphi Records,

Twofer Sampler Summer 1976

1976, 2xLP, Comp, Promo, Gat, Fantasy, Milestone (4), Prestige,

Kerrville Folk Festival 5th Anniversary - "Live" 1976

1976, LP, Album, Ltd, Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival

All-Nassau County Junior High School Orchestra-Chorus-Band

The Nassau Music Educators Association Bicentennial Concert

1976, LP, Silver Crest Custom

Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia Of Jazz In The '70s

1976, 2x Vinyl,

Fusion/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Big Band

Words We Can Dance To

1975, 2xLP, Album, Gat, Mariposa Folk Festival

Jessie's Jig And Other Favorites

1975, Vinyl CTH,

Disconnected (The Dial-A-Poem Poets)

1974, 2xLP, Comp, Giorno Poetry Systems

Hannibal Marvin Peterson & The Sunrise Orchestra

Children Of The Fire

Encyclopedia Of Jazz On Records - Vol. 5

1974, 2x Vinyl,

Rosalie Sorrels

What Ever Happened To The Girl That Was

By Request - Volume VI

Big Band/Contemporary Jazz

Loudon Wainwright III

1972, Vinyl Terre Haute Press,

Folk Rock/Comedy/Ballad

1971, Vinyl Terre Haute Pressing,

Blues Rock/Folk Rock

LeRoy Holmes Orchestra And Chorus*

Themes From The New Provocative Films

1970, LP, Album, United Artists Records

LeRoy Holmes Orchestra And Chorus*

Themes From The New Provocative Films

Mary Lou Williams

Music For Peace

Bop/Post Bop/Soul-Jazz

Arthur Miller, Harold Clurman, The Repertory Company Of Lincoln Center*, Hal Holbrook

Arthur Miller's Incident At Vichy

Arthur Miller With The Repertory Theater Of Lincoln Center

Arthur Miller's After The Fall

Curtis Fuller And Hampton Hawes

Curtis Fuller And Hampton Hawes With French Horns

Percy Faith Y Su Orquesta*

Lawrence De Arabia

1963, 7", EP, CBS

Oscar Pettiford

In Memoriam Oscar Pettiford

1963, LP, Comp, Mono, Philips,

Another Taste Of Honey!

Les Baxter And His Orchestra*

Theme From 'The Manchurian Candidate' / 'Manchurian Beat'

Kenny Dorham With Cannonball Adderley & Sonny Rollins

Kenny Dorham And Friends

Percy Faith & His Orchestra

Hollywood's Great Themes

Hugo Montenegro & His Orch.*

(Theme From The Motion Picture) The Young Savages

Amram Barrow Sextet*

Harold's Way / Theme From "The Young Savages"

Stan Kenton And His Orchestra

Theme From Splendor In The Grass

Archibald MacLeish

1959, 2xLP + Box, RCA Victor Red Seal

Kenny Dorham Septet Featuring Cannonball Adderley

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra*

Oscar Pettiford Orchestra In Hi-Fi, Volume Two

Sal Salvador Quartet

Colors In Sound

4 French Horns Plus Rhythm

1956, 10", Album, Mono, Angel Records,

Jam Session In Paris

1955, 7", EP, EmArcy

Jam Session In Paris

Oscar Pettiford And His Birdland Band

Jazz Off The Air Vol.6

LP, Album, Spotlite Records,

American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Robert Austin Boudreau

Music Of The Americas

CD, Not On Label (American Wind Symphony Orchestra Self-released)

Various, University Of Northern Colorado Wind Ensemble, Eugene Corporon

3xLP, Soundmark (2)

University Of Colorado Wind Ensemble

Hands Across The Sea

Cass, Album, Soundmark (2),

A Life Of Music - Historic Live Performances

One World Horn (A Solo Horn Journey)

CD, Not On Label (Jeffrey Lang Self-released)

Lionel Hampton, Mezz Mezzrow

Paris - New York - Europe 1953-1962

2017, 3xCD, Comp, Frémeaux & Associés,

Mariposa Folk Festival 2016

2016, CD, Comp, Mariposa Folk Festival

Buy This Fracking Album

Live At Caffè Lena

2013, 3x CD, Box Set,

Voices Of Other Times

2011, LP, Comp, Pin Cushion,

Psychedelic/Disco

Beat Scene - Jack Kerouac, his contemporaries and influences

2010, CD, Comp, Él

Presents Quiet Moments

Soul-Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Jazz On CD No.15 - Hip & Hers - A Celebration Of Vocal Jazz

1995, CD, Smplr, Jazz On CD

Kerrville Folk Festival ~ Ten Great Years - Volume Two - Discs 1-5

1995, 5xCD, Comp, Ltd, Num, Silverwolf / Kerrville,

Country/Acoustic/Folk/Country Rock/Rock & Roll/Texas Blues/Chicago Blues/Country Blues/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Ballad/Bayou Funk/Blues Rock/Bluegrass/Delta Blues/Calypso/Folk Rock

Beat Jazz: Pictures From The Gone World

Kerrville Folk Festival 1989

1989, Cass, Album, Ltd, Kerrville Music Foundation, Inc.,

Country/Texas Blues/Folk/Country Rock/Honky Tonk

Vancouver Folk Music Festival

1980, LP, Comp, Aural Tradition Records

Great Warner Bros. Love Themes

1979, LP, Warner Bros. Records

El Genuino Sabor Americano. Jazz

1979, 2xCass, Comp, RCA Victor, RCA

Alison's Tea House

1972, LP, Transcription, Chelsea Productions

The Early Years - Kerrville Folk Festival - 10 CD Limited Edition * 1972-1981

10xCD, Comp, Ltd, Silverwolf / Kerrville,

Acoustic/Bluegrass/Country/Country Blues/Country Rock/Folk/Conjunto/Texas Blues/Celtic/Hillbilly/Harmonica Blues/Louisiana Blues/Folk Rock/Piano Blues/Honky Tonk/Hill Country Blues/Gospel

Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan & Friends*

Holy Soul & Jelly Roll