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- What is your profession?
- Musician, Songwriter, Singer, Producer, Composer, Broadcaster, Other Jazz professional
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- Multi-Cultural Jazz Group
- Where Are you located?
- New Haven CT USA
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- The Jazz Voice of the World
- About Me:
- Airborne the proclaimed "Musical Peacemakers" of Contemporary Jazz
Trademark jazz sound of island passion and urban emotion. Musical Peacemakers - Listen for the Message - As Performing Artists, Recording Artists, Educators, and as Humanitarians the band’s quality of excellence and compassion has kept them on the road to success.
The New CD Winds of Change is coming out at an unsettled time in history. Wartime, a important election year, a world in turmoil, a bad economy, and people making decisions based on fear.
The title, compositions, and even the emotion of this new project show our concern on all these matters of global importance. We are musicians, but with deep humanitarian thoughts. We are not politicians, just a voice that they the politicians should be hearing. The world needs to change and we need to take action. But we must be unified first. We hope you enjoy our new music and that it helps in the cause to bring people together, so that change can be made. Our message is very simple, Learn to Love, Hold on to Hope, Dare to Dream, and Live in Peace. So Be Well, Be Happy, and really enjoy Life. But remember to Reach out your hand and ride the Winds of Change.
Winds of Change is our 6th CD on Tilt Records. Airborne has been graciously proclaimed as the “Musical Peacemakers” of Contemporary Jazz. Maybe because we are focusing our talents we have been blessed with in a harmonious atmosphere for change. We are trying to have our music transfigure a spirit of love and compassion for our fellow brothers and sisters. To echo a strong athemn to humanity that it is time to turn the page for the sake of our future generations.
The world is finally traveling on the winds of change. Many discoveries and efforts have been made to make us all aware of the dangers that peril our planet and its children. Many wonderful people have already dedicated their lives for this important change. But their deeds must have everyone’s support, help, and blessing.
Projects for Global Warming, Hunger, Natural Disasters, New Energy Resources, and Economical Distress have been created. All these concerns and factors have stressed our earth to its boiling point. The time is now for change and to take action seriously. Without prejudice we must all stand together to achieve peace and global unity to take on these most difficult tasks.
We must reach out our hands to the world. We can make this earth a better place to live. No matter what faith, race, color, or wealth you have. We are all children of this world. We must help save our planet and its children! I urge everyone to Reach out your hand and ride the Winds of Change!
"Airborne is a band with a mission… the multi-cultural contemporary jazz group from New England takes flight setting the objective on using their musical energies for calming an otherwise disruptive world.
What the world needs is more people who do what they love to do with purpose and confidence and because they love doing it... genuine and big- hearted….delightful, lively and filled with life… …joyful jazz"
Sandy Shore – www.smoothjazz.com
When listening to this stunning and graceful CD, you will notice that this ensemble plants musical "seeds of peace" and uses music to help make our dream of a better world come true. So, let yourself be guided by these "musical peacemakers. Turbulence is a great musical achievement.
Akbar Nour – www.smoothjazznow.com
Airborne are back with their fifth CD release ‘Turbulence’. It retains much of the excellence that grabbed attention the last time around and widens horizons to demonstrate huge empathy with the music of many cultures. In fact the entire collection is a rollercoaster ride of moods and emotions, writing credits and the superb vocals are at the core of all its best moments.
Totally typical of what Airborne do best, produce tracks of genuine substance. Tight, edgy and spliced with wonderful backing vocals, everything that Airborne represents. A vibe that is uniquely Airborne, fresh and eclectic, ‘Turbulence’ is well worth discovering.
Denis Poole – www.smoothjazztherapy.com
Airborne’s fifth album, Turbulence meets all your expectations of what you imagine an eminent jazz album would be like. Airborne have produced an album that is a portrait of jazz music’s charms and supple movements making music that is idealistic and proofed for party mixers. Turbulence gives jazz music a very good feel.
Susan Frances – www.jazzreview.com
Airborne is the type of group and Turbulence is the type of recording that represents what I love about contemporary jazz – it’s like unwrapping an unexpected gift and discovering, for the first time, something you like but didn’t know existed.
It never ceases to amaze and at the same time perplex me – the sheer talent and
originality of these jazz artists. This is good stuff - check it out!
John Luciano – www.contemporaryjazz.com
This crew is in flight & they are dynamic!
Exquisitely from New Haven, CT., This crew releases their 5th CD of choice to the Contemporary Jazz Crowd with a little Urban flair in the mix. It reflects on a societal note of worldwide news & differences to the matter of heart & soul. The music in jazz from these players connects the dots to what you hear in the environment today. Especially to those seeking reminisce to the original Contemporary jazz game & the music it speaks for!
For jazz artists such as them, their true testimony may ride into their consistency & passion for music in this project. The overall feel! It speaks loudly throughout the CD & yes… It’s Recommended! - Terrill J. Hanna - www.theurbanmusicscene.com
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Airborne the “Musical Peacemakers” of Contemporary Jazz sends out an Inspirational Message of Hope
Airborne has been awarded a Merit of Honor by the World Peace Organization
for their Excellence in World Music and as Humanitarians.
Airborne - Tilt Records Recording Artists
Contemporary Jazz / Smooth Jazz & Vocals / Cool & Straight Ahead Jazz / World Fusion
Airborne is the Music and Message of Today - Real Jazz by Real Jazz Artists
Captivating and Entrancing - A Triumph for Contemporary Jazz
Airborne gives one hope and courage that Contemporary jazz is still alive
Depth and character we've come to expect from this experienced & world-class group
Next CD " New Horizons" to be released in March of 2010
Discography
Winds of Change - 2008 - Tilt Records
Turbulence - 2007 - Tilt Records
Heavy Vibes - 2004 - Tilt Records
Lifetones - 1999 - Tilt Records
Across the Sky - 1995 - Tilt Records
Take Off - 1990 - Tilt Records
As Performing Artists, Recording Artists, Educators, and as Humanitarians the band’s quality of excellence and compassion has kept them on the road to success.
for their Excellence in World Music and as Humanitarians.
Airborne - Tilt Records Recording Artists
Contemporary Jazz / Smooth Jazz & Vocals / Cool & Straight Ahead Jazz / World Fusion
Airborne is the Music and Message of Today - Real Jazz by Real Jazz Artists
Captivating and Entrancing - A Triumph for Contemporary Jazz
Airborne gives one hope and courage that Contemporary jazz is still alive
Depth and character we've come to expect from this experienced & world-class group
Next CD " New Horizons" to be released in March of 2010
Discography
Winds of Change - 2008 - Tilt Records
Turbulence - 2007 - Tilt Records
Heavy Vibes - 2004 - Tilt Records
Lifetones - 1999 - Tilt Records
Across the Sky - 1995 - Tilt Records
Take Off - 1990 - Tilt Records
As Performing Artists, Recording Artists, Educators, and as Humanitarians the band’s quality of excellence and compassion has kept them on the road to success.
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Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
Events
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Mel Brown Quartet
March 25, 2009 at 8pm to March 27, 2013 at 11pm – Jimmy Mak's
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Luigi Ruberti Quintet
December 4, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 12pm – Naples
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Betty Blue Jazz Band
December 5, 2009 from 6pm to 9:30pm – The Crystal Lounge( near Brooklyn College area)
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ROME NEAL in Concert
December 5, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 1am – The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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Saturday JAZZ Nights at Chelsea Wine Bar
December 19, 2009 at 8:30pm to December 20, 2009 at 12:30am – Chelsea Wine Bar
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Tish Oney
January 9, 2010 from 7:15pm to 7:30pm – Hilton Hotel - New York Suite
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Tish Oney
January 9, 2010 from 10pm to 10:15pm – Hilton Hotel - Beekman Suite
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Great sound.
AWSOME !
GOD BLESS
MILTON
we are fans of your music for years, keep doing so great job
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Again, thanks for sharing, loved it.
Airborne the Musical Peacemakers of Contemporary Jazz "Winds of Change" Video www.airbornejazz.com
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Sounding Great!
Thanks for including me as a friend.
All the Best,
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