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David Amram

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David Amram (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and author. [1]

90 relations: Aaron Copland, Appleseed Recordings, Balkan Samba Records, Betty Carter, Bobby Jaspar, Bobby Sanabria, Broadcast Music, Inc., Broadway theatre, Buck Henry, Candido, Cannonball Adderley, Canyon Records, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Clint Eastwood, Colorado Symphony, Columbia Records, David Broza, Decca Records, Denver, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Dizzy Gillespie, Elektra Records, Elektra/Musician, EmArcy Records, Floyd Westerman, Franz Kline, French horn, George Barrow (musician), Gunther Schuller, Harold Land, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, James Galway, Jazz, Jerry Dodgion, Jimmy Knepper, Joan Mitchell, Joe Wilder, Joel Cox, Joseph Papp, Julius Watkins, Kenneth Radnofsky, Kurt Elling, Langston Hughes, Lee Ranaldo, Leonard Bernstein, Levon Helm, Lionel Hampton, Machito, ..., Maurice Peress, Metropolitan Opera, Miles Davis, New York Philharmonic, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, Oscar Pettiford, Paradigm Publishers, Pepper Adams, Pete Seeger, Pickwick Records, Prestige Records, Pull My Daisy, Raffi, RCA Records, Red Pajamas Records, Rhino Entertainment, Richard Barone, Riverside Records, Ron Whitehead, Rounder Records, Rykodisc, Smithsonian Folkways, Splendor in the Grass, Steve Berrios, Steve Dalachinsky, Subway Night, The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi, The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two, Thelonious Monk, Toshi Seeger, Twelfth Night, United Press International, Varèse Sarabande, Verve Records, Willem de Kooning, Willie Nelson, Woody Guthrie Foundation, World music. Expand index (40 more) »

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

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Appleseed Recordings

Appleseed Recordings is an American folk music record label founded by Jim Musselman in 1997.

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Balkan Samba Records

Balkan Samba Records is a record label in Evanston, Illinois founded by multi-instrumentalist and composer Howard Levy.

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Betty Carter

Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies.

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Bobby Jaspar

Bobby Jaspar (20 February 1926 – 28 February 1963) was a Belgian cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer.

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Bobby Sanabria

Bobby Sanabria is an American drummer and percussionist of Puerto Rican descent who specializes in jazz and Latin jazz.

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Broadcast Music, Inc.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of five United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP, SESAC, Global Music Rights, &. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Buck Henry

Henry Zuckerman, credited as Buck Henry (born December 9, 1930), is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director.

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Candido

Candido is both a given name and a surname.

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Cannonball Adderley

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Canyon Records

Canyon Records of Phoenix, Arizona has produced and distributed Native American music for 56 years.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure.

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Colorado Symphony

The Colorado Symphony is an American symphony orchestra located in Denver, Colorado.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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David Broza

David Broza (דויד ברוזה; born September 4, 1955) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and activist.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Dimitri Mitropoulos

Dimitri Mitropoulos (Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος; – 2 November 1960), was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Elektra/Musician

Elektra/Musician was a jazz record label founded as a subsidiary of Elektra Records in 1982.

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EmArcy Records

EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Floyd Westerman

Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta i.e. "Red Crow" in Dakota (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007), was a Sioux musician, political activist, and actor.

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Franz Kline

Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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George Barrow (musician)

George Barrow (21 September 1921 – 20 March 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist who played both tenor and baritone saxes.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.

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Harold Land

Harold de Vance Land (December 18, 1928 – July 27, 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

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James Galway

Sir James Galway, (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute".

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerry Dodgion

Jerry Dodgion (born August 29, 1932) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Jimmy Knepper

James Minter Knepper (November 22, 1927 – June 14, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American "second generation" abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.

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Joe Wilder

Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Joel Cox

Joel Cox (Born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor.

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Joseph Papp

Joseph "Joe" Papp (June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director.

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Julius Watkins

Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) was an American jazz musician, and one of the first French horn players in jazz.

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Kenneth Radnofsky

Kenneth A. Radnofsky (born July 31, 1953 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American classical saxophonist.

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Kurt Elling

Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz vocalist, composer, lyricist and vocalese performer.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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Lee Ranaldo

Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Levon Helm

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the vocalists for The Band.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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Machito

Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, December 3, 1908?–April 19, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music.

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Maurice Peress

Maurice Peress (March 18, 1930 – December 31, 2017) was an American orchestra conductor, educator and author.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization that honors jazz, blues and gospel musicians in the state of Oklahoma.

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Oscar Pettiford

Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer.

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Paradigm Publishers

Paradigm Publishers was an academic, textbook, and trade publisher in social science and the humanities based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Pepper Adams

Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Pickwick Records

Pickwick Records was an American record label and British distributor known for its budget album releases of sound-alike recordings, bargain bin reissues and repackagings under the brands Design, Bravo (later changing their name to International Award), Hurrah, Grand Prix, and children's records on the Cricket and Happy Time labels.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Pull My Daisy

Pull My Daisy is a 1959 American short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.

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Raffi

Raffi Cavoukian, (Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Red Pajamas Records

Red Pajamas Records is an independent American record label.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Richard Barone

Richard Barone is an American rock musician who first gained attention as frontman for The Bongos.

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Riverside Records

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label.

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Ron Whitehead

Ron Whitehead is an American poet, author and activist.

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Rounder Records

Rounder Records is an American record label specializing in folk, bluegrass, blues, and other forms of American roots music.

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Rykodisc

Rykodisc was an American record label.

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Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 Technicolor drama film that tells a story of a teenage girl navigating her feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.

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Steve Berrios

Steve Berrios (February 24, 1945 – July 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist born in New York, New York, United States.

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Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky is a New York downtown poet.

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Subway Night

Subway Night is an album by jazz hornist David Amram, released in 1972 on RCA Records.

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)

The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American suspense thriller film about the Cold War and sleeper agents.

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The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford which was recorded in 1956 and first issued on the ABC-Paramount label.

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The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (also referred to as O.P.'s Jazz Men) is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford that was recorded in 1957 and first issued on the ABC-Paramount label.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Toshi Seeger

Toshi Aline Seeger (née Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer, and environmental activist.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You WillUse of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in the First Folio: "Twelfe Night, Or what you will" is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

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Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, owned by Concord Music Group and distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist.

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Woody Guthrie Foundation

The Woody Guthrie Foundation, founded in 1972, is a non-profit organization which formerly served as administrator and caretaker of the Woody Guthrie Archives.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amram

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