If there’s a better pairing than David Amram and the Village Trip festival, we’d like to see it!
Amram, a Greenwich Village living legend, had his first gig in New York City in 1955, playing with Charles Mingus’ band. His resume is much too long to include here, but we will mention that he’s played with Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and Jack Kerouac, just to name a few.
The voluminous Village Trip festival opened on Sept. 14, with the almost 94-year-old Amram dominating the free concert at West 4th and Jones Streets. He opened with his band, gave the stage up to “Our Band,” and came back for another set before ceding the stage to three artists curated by the Music Inn, whose owner Jeff Slatnik is also a notable part of the Village’s musical history.
Liz Thomson, Co-Founder and Executive Producer of The Village Trip enjoying the show with Cliff Pearson, the Joint Artistic DirectorThe rest of the program ran the gamut from straight jazz to a traditional Kenyan farewell song to music from Israel, Brazil and Ireland, among others.Amram’s tribute to Chengdu, China. “It’s where I first heard the Chinese Hulusi and realized that its haunting sound was perfect for playing the blues in E-Minor,” he explains.
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