Episode 14. Musical Guest Nels Andrews & Personal Portrait David Amram
December 4, 2010
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/14153
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“My Friends Have” by Mary Margaret O’Hare from Miss America, 1988.
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Musical Guest and dj Nels Andrews who earned his chops hanging out with some questionable characters in his time. He released his first album, Sunday Shoes, independently in 2005. The album was critically well received, earning plaudits from BBC Radio soon after its release. Eventually, Andrews was able to parlay his critical success into gigs at prominent festivals in Europe, which he managed to play while maintaining a regul…ar job in construction in his home of Albuquerque. Andrews eventually signed a deal with Reveal Records, and with an indie all-star band including Todd Sickafoose, pianist Michael Jorgensen, and drummer Ben Perowsky. Andrews recorded and released his second album, Off Track Betting. It saw release in February of 2008. www.myspace.com/nelsandrews
Guest Spot: Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth and the Catapults www.myspace.com/elizabethandthecatapults
Personal Portrait David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, including the groundbreaking Holo- caust opera The Final Ingredient; and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of three books, Vibrations, an autobiography, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac, a memoir, and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, published in the fall of 2007 by Paradigm Publishers. A pioneer player of jazz French horn, he is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein (who chose him as The New York Philharmonic’s first composer-in-residence in 1966), Dizzy Gillespie, Langston Hughes, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Depp and Tito Puente. http://david-amram.blogspot.com/
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