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David Amram Quartet & Friends 89th Birthday Celebration at Towne Crier Cafe
Courtesy of Kate Goldsmith | Posted on November 7, 2019
Where
Towne Crier Cafe
379 Main St.
Beacon, NY
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When
Sun, November 17, 2019
7:00 pm
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Musicians
David Amram
multi-instrumentalistAbout
David Amram started his professional life in music as a French Hornist in the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) in 1951. After serving in the US Army from 1952-54, he moved to New York City in 1955 and played French horn in the legendary jazz bands of Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Oscar Pettiford.
In 1957, he created and performed in the first ever Jazz/Poetry readings in New York City with novelist Jack Kerouac, a close friend with whom Amram collaborated artistically for over 12 years.
Since the early 1950s, he has traveled the world extensively, working as a musician and a conductor in over thirty-five countries including Cuba, Kenya, Egypt, Pakistan, Israel, Latvia and China. He also regularly crisscrosses the United States and Canada....