File 107 - David Amram : from Cairo to Canada to Kerouac

2 DVDs (1 hr., 6 min., 32 sec. ; 48 min., 59 sec.)

File consists of a recording of a concert at Gallery 345, which featured David Amram, composer and multi-instrumentalist; Les Allt, flute; and Roberto Occhipinti, bass.

Program:

• Introduction by David Amram
• Screening of Robert Franks' film Pull my Daisy spontaneously narrated by Jack Kerouac, directed by Alfred Leslie, score and title song composed by David Amram
• Question and answer session with David Amram
• Giants of the night. Second movement / David Amram (Les Allt, flute)
• This is beat / reading of a statement Jack Kerouac by David Amram
• Jazz and poetry : five classic excerpts read from On the Road, as performed by Kerouac and Amram in 1957 for the first public jazz-poetry readings in New York City
  • Children of the American Bop night
  • Denver at last
  • On the roof of America
  • On hearing shearing
  • So in America
• Kerouc and Amram's musical favourites:
  • Waltz from Arthur Miller's After the Fall from Amram's score for Miller's play Aya Zehn, famous Egyptian folk song
  • Theme for Splendor in the Grass from Amram's score for the film
  • Mastinchele Wachipi Olwan / traditional Lakota round dance melody
  • Pull my daisy / lyrics by Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg.

For other recordings of Roberto Occhipinti, see the Music Library CD collection, which includes his album A Bend in the River [CD 59720].