Re: [ARSCLIST] David Amram, was Rock and roll drumming

[Peter Hirsch <punto@xxxxxxxx>]

Quoting myself in a message I just posted:

>I know that this is wandering off the mission statement for this list, 
but I never let that stop me before. I'll "try" to not go on too much.
>
>Amram is certainly a one-off and most interesting as a horn player, 
jazzer and chronicler of an era (actually more than one, but 
particularly the Beat one). Just finished >reading his second volume of 
memoirs (never got around to "Vibrations" yet, but will eventually) 
"Offbeat" and found it quite touching, though quite self centered (hey, 
>it's an auto-biography!).  He is not in the absolute first rank of 
horn-player who do (did) jazz (Watkins, Varner, possibly Graas and some 
others), but a ground >breaker, nevertheless.

I should add (and to actually tie it to an ongoing thread) that I was 
simultaneously reading Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1 and Amram's memoir (due 
to finding them both on the same remaindered list at Daedalus books) and 
found it a powerful mix that intersected on more than one occasion. If  
the areas of beat in the 50's and the 60s folk scene are of  interest to 
you, try this double dip.

OK, I'm sorry, that's it on this thread for me,

Peter Hirsch