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journalist

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Chattanooga, Tennessee

How did you find out about TGJN?

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Jazz journalist since 1988, contributing CD and DVD reviews to several media outlets, along with writing occasional liner notes, press bios and articles.

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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=121

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At 10:41pm on May 3, 2008, Marly Ikeda said…: Hi Ken,
Thanks for your friendship!
It's so good meet new cool friends here.
Stay in touch.
Kisses,
May

At 9:00am on April 2, 2008, Elli Fordyce said…: Thanks, Don. And thanks for sending it by email as well (which you'll find an answer to). I really appreciate your kind words.

Best,

Elli

At 7:01am on April 2, 2008, Ken Dryden said…: Too bad I didn't acquire a copy of Death of a Bebop Wife before it got so pricey!

At 5:54am on April 2, 2008, THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK said…: You are looking good and now we look better!

Thanks for uploading your photo Ken.

Please check out the journalist & blogger groups.
There are several writers here. We need more. (smile)

Tamm E

At 5:44am on April 2, 2008, Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan said…: KEN,

THERE WAS A VIDEO OF AL PLAYING ON MYSPACE AND NOW IT IS GONE. TOLD VIRUSES ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE; THANKS TO TAMM E. TELLING ABOUT COMING IN ON TGJN I'M HERE AGAIN TALKING TO YOU .

THE VIDEO IS THE ONLY EXISTING VIDEO OF AL PLAYING WITH DIZZY'S BEBOP REUNION BAND AT JOE SEGAL'S JAZZ SHOW CASE IN THE MID SEVENTIES WITH DIZZY, JAMES MOODY, KENNY CLARK, RAY BROWN, MILT JACKSON, JOE CARROLL, AND SARAH VAUGHN....THAT IS A NIGHT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A REVIEW OF AS IT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

GRANGE

At 3:48pm on April 1, 2008, Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan said…: Ken,

Like your seriouso straight ahead photo.

I am very impressed with your credentials and amazed at your scope and what you have listened to and reviewed; I would love to see what you wrote abou Lennie and Lorriane.

There isn't anyone, or so it seems, that you haven't written about. One thing is for sure Al Haig is not someone you have ever written about.

Cadence Jazz Books published Death of a Bebop Wife last April which I spent over 15 years writing and interviewing over 400 luminaries of the jazz world, and as Bob Rousch feels this tome is going to be around for awhile, I have done, with the help of an agent, quite a bit of marketing. If you go to google.com and put my book in it shows 9 healthy reviews and that they are out of it but there are 2 used copies or $299.00 and that is not a typo.

In the near future I will be having another signing at Trumpets and will possibly be thinking of new promo.

Grange Lady Haig Rutan
www.ladyhaig.com
Cadence Jazz Books
Death of a Bebop Wife
www.myspace.com/grangeladyhaigrutan
alhaigbebop@aol.com

At 2:05pm on April 1, 2008, THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK said…: Welcome! Ken

Thank you for joining the movement @ TGJN
We are delighted you have connected to the movement @ the destination where great Jazz minds meet.

Please upload your photo. When you look good, we look better.

We look forward to hearing you in the writer/blogger/journalist groups.

Building Bridges 4 Jazz

Tamm E Hunt
publisher/founder
TGJN

At 1:56pm on April 1, 2008, Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan said…: Ken,

Greetings from a bebopper. Where are you and do you have any liner notes or press bios you could share? I might be interested.

Grange Lady Haig Rutan Author
Cadence Jazz Books
Death of a Bebop Wife
www.ladyhaig.com
www.myspace.com/grangeladyhaigrutan
alhaigbebop2aol.com

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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Billy Taylor

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

Hi Tamm E!

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