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- What is your profession?
- Other
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- Saxophones & DSLR Cameras
- Where Are you located?
- Hempstead, New York
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- Dwight Brewster
- About Me:
- I'm a product of the legendary "Jamaica Funk" music wave that originated in Jamaica, Queens (NY) back in the early 1970's when funk, contemporary jazz, and R&B fused to be a unique alternative to the Motown and The Beatles sounds we heard so much on the radio. Our bands were fiercely competitive yet united in generating a new flavor that encouraged many who came behind us to seek and achieve great strides in the field of music. As strange as it may seem, after having a good run with this profession, I learned that I love listening to and visualizing the many moods and colors of jazz more than the sound of my performing it. I always considered myself a so-so soloist on sax. Don't get me wrong, I could (can) play. I was part of a hot, dynamic four piece horn section. But when it came my turn to solo, my mind heard things my fingers didn't. This eventually made me more of an enthusiast and less active as a musician. However, my need to express myself in the genre remained. It soon led me to a new "instrument": the camera. After all, light and sound are merely transformed stages of each other. I found my music background to be extremely valuable when attempting to capture the intensity of a performer's expression through a lens. The anticipated split second climax of a musical phrasing during a performance can reverberate forever in a photograph. And it's that expression that makes the difference.
The process is complete when both photographer and subject become in tune with each others rhythms. A phenomenon I affectionatly refer to as "PHOTOGENY", a term meaning the science involved in making a subject appealing (hence photogenic) as it's seen through a camera lens.
Currently I am a staff photographer for a NY newspaper called THE NEW YORK TREND. The banner of the news paper boasts "The Largest Black Owned Newspaper on Long Island". Alot of my assignments consist of attending jazz performances and festivals, then exhibiting my shots amidst a revue of the event. During which, my camera becomes my instrument and I get to perform along with the artist. I've had the distinct opportunities of photographing many prominent personalities and events, including arguably the "greatest show on earth" in modern history, the inauguration of our 44th President of These United States. Barack H. Obama. My camera of choice is the Sony Alpha 700 equipped with a wide rangeof lenses. I find there is surely enough Canon and Nikon operators out there. The world can afford to be seen from a different view. And that seems to be the common denominator in my life - looking at things from another perspective.
I've always believed JAZZ to be more than just music. It's a way of life.
And the answer to your anticipated question is - Yes. Sometimes I do hear my sax "calling me", but for now I prefer to keep my mouth shut with eyes and ears open.
- Website:
- http://www.newyorktrendonline.com
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STEINWAY PIANIST SERGIO SALVATORE & Special guest CHRISTOS RAFALIDES (VIBRAPHONIST) CARNEGIE HALL'S…
STEINWAY PIANIST SERGIO SALVATORE & Special guest CHRISTOS RAFALIDES (VIBRAPHONIST)
CARNEGIE HALL'S - WEILL RECITAL HALL
8 P.M. - FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 30TH
Steinway jazz pianist Sergio Salvatore will perform at historic Carnegie
Hall's Weill Recital Hall (57th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC) on
Friday, October 30th, at 8:00 pm.
Mr. Salvatore will be joined by vibraphonist Christos Rafalides,
performing selections from their new release “Dark Sand."
Sergio Salvatore began playing at a very e… Continue
CARNEGIE HALL'S - WEILL RECITAL HALL
8 P.M. - FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 30TH
Steinway jazz pianist Sergio Salvatore will perform at historic Carnegie
Hall's Weill Recital Hall (57th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC) on
Friday, October 30th, at 8:00 pm.
Mr. Salvatore will be joined by vibraphonist Christos Rafalides,
performing selections from their new release “Dark Sand."
Sergio Salvatore began playing at a very e… Continue
Posted on October 6, 2009 at 1:02pm —
Artists United For Human Rights: USS Little Rock , October 4, 2009
Artists United For Human Rights: USS Little Rock
October 4, 2009, aboard the USS Little Rock, Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park, musicians and artists support human rights.
12n-7pm Sunday, this festival features non-stop live music, local artists and business selling their wares, and directors of task forces and organizations that support human rights focusing on education, awareness and prevention of child abuse and trafficking.
This all day event is to suppor… Continue
Posted on September 29, 2009 at 8:28pm —
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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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Steve Cromity
November 27, 2009 from 8pm to 11:30pm – 966 Fulton St. Brooklyn, NY @ Grand Ave., 10 min. from Bklyn Br.
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Workout
December 3, 2009 from 9pm to 11pm – Casale Monferrato
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Luigi Ruberti Quintet
December 4, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 12pm – Naples
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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Jazz On Edge Volume 2
February 6, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm – Garden Theatre
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