World Music: David Amram (seated left) is shown performing with localmusicians from Radio Lahore in Pakistan during his 1978 U.S. State Department sponsored tour of Southeast Asia and the Middle East as Musical Ambassador of Good Will.
David plays french horn withPercy Heath, bass, and Dizzy Gellespie in a nationally televised all-star gala concert in memory of Thelonious Monk at Constitional Hall in Washington D.C. in the Fall of 1986. Amram, along with the late Julius Watkins has been a pioneer of jazz french horn since the late forties. Amram first played with Gellespie in 1951 in Washington D.C.
Cuban Tour: Multi-talented musician and composer David Amram is seen here playing two flutes simultaneously while Dizzy Gellespie performs on congas during a ship-board cincert when both were enroute to Cuba for the first ever U.S. State Department good will concert in Havana in the Spring of 1977 in which American and Cuban musicians played together.
The Longest Walk: David Amram (far left) joined other major performers and entertainers at the historic 1978 concert at the National Armory in Washington D.C. celebrating the conclusion of "The Longest Walk," a six-month march across America be Native American Indians demanding improved human rights for American Indians. Shown here following the concert are (left to right): Mohammed Ali, Buffy St.Marie, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, boxing promoter Harold Smith, Stevie Wonder, Marlon Brando, Max Gail, Dick Gregory, Richie Havens and David Amram.
Gala Opening: David Amram and comedian Bill Cosby are shown here at a gala 1991 concert celebrating the opening of the Johnson Cultural Arts Center. Amram conducted the Kansas City Symphony and Cosby was the featured performer.
Texas Gathering: David chats with legendary songwriter Hondo Crouch (left, with hat) during a 1976 music festival in Luckenback.
From left to right: Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, Allen Ginsberg,
Gregory Corso (with back to camera)
Breakfast in New York, late 1950s.
World Music: David Amram (seated left) is shown performing with localmusicians from Radio Lahore in Pakistan during his 1978 U.S. State Department sponsored tour of Southeast Asia and the Middle East as Musical Ambassador of Good Will.
David plays french horn withPercy Heath, bass, and Dizzy Gellespie in a nationally televised all-star gala concert in memory of Thelonious Monk at Constitional Hall in Washington D.C. in the Fall of 1986. Amram, along with the late Julius Watkins has been a pioneer of jazz french horn since the late forties. Amram first played with Gellespie in 1951 in Washington D.C.
Cuban Tour: Multi-talented musician and composer David Amram is seen here playing two flutes simultaneously while Dizzy Gellespie performs on congas during a ship-board cincert when both were enroute to Cuba for the first ever U.S. State Department good will concert in Havana in the Spring of 1977 in which American and Cuban musicians played together.
The Longest Walk: David Amram (far left) joined other major performers and entertainers at the historic 1978 concert at the National Armory in Washington D.C. celebrating the conclusion of "The Longest Walk," a six-month march across America be Native American Indians demanding improved human rights for American Indians. Shown here following the concert are (left to right): Mohammed Ali, Buffy St.Marie, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, boxing promoter Harold Smith, Stevie Wonder, Marlon Brando, Max Gail, Dick Gregory, Richie Havens and David Amram.
Texas Gathering: David chats with legendary songwriter Hondo Crouch (left, with hat) during a 1976 music festival in Luckenback.
