THIS WEEKEND // Jazz Legend David Amram Live
May 6, 2011When it comes to cultural offerings, NYC boasts an embarrassment of riches. Though sometimes it’s easy to glaze over and go a little numb to our incredible access to world-class art.
If you’re familiar with that slumber, a performance by jazz legend David Amram this weekend is just the tonic to wake you up. From 8pm-1am on Sunday, May 8, the 80-year-old virtuoso takes the stage at 3HREE, a three-day art and music festival featuring fine artists and sculptors, including 3rd Ward instructor Harry Gold, at 3 Egg Studios in Williamsburg (79 Lorimer St).
The composer/conductor/multi-instrumentalist—best known for breaking ground with improv French horn-playing and exposing an American audience to world music—has collaborated with the likes of Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Getz--along with Jack Kerouac in pioneering jazz-poetry readings in 1950s New York. Wynton Marsalis has called him “a godsend to those who believe in the power of music to change lives and to inspire,” and that’s no hyperbole. He’ll fill a packed house, so arrive early, and savor the chance to catch this wizard in action.
--Cara Cannella
