528 Pages
by
Routledge
528 Pages
by
Routledge
528 Pages
by
Routledge
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David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as "the Renaissance man of American Music." Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading in New York City in 1957 as well as the subsequent legendary film Pull My Daisy in 1959, combining... Read more
Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 3; Epilogue; Afterword
Biography
David Amram
“Vibrations was a revelation for me. I identified totally with Amram’s joie de vivre style, which illuminates the pages of Vibrations. … One thing is certain: Amram remains the most indefatigable musician of our time.”
—From the Foreword by Douglas Brinkley
“It is a sad book and uproarious, naïve and knowledgeable, insane and finally as straight as the top of Amram’s piano. It is one man’s struggle for the kind of authenticity in life and in music which everything in our time seems designed to frustrate and destroy.”
—Arthur Miller
“An utterly refreshing and rollicking ramble through the world of contemporary music, under the wing of a rambunctious tour guide who is guileless yet informative, funny yet perceptive, exhilarated yet earnest. Every profession should have its Amram!”
—George Plimpton
