Tag: David Amram

• Larry Keenan, Photographer

  Photographer Larry Keenan was there to chronicle the great transition from the “Beat Generation” to the “Hippie Generation” – taking pictures of artists, musicians, and scene-makers like Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Bob Dylan, Michael McClure, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and more. Many of these photos are in the permanent […]

  Bill Ectric

  June 18, 2017

  allen ginsberg, beat generation, counterculture, David Amram, flower children, hippies, Larry Keenan, Michael McClure, photography, san francisco, the beats, Timothy Leary

• The Beat Goes On

  My interview with musician/composer David Amram has been selected as one of the 18 pieces in this new book from Literary Kicks.  Read all about it at Amazon.com: Literary Kicks, a website born in 1994, was there to witness it all, standing at the crossroads of emerging Internet culture and Beat inspiration. Here’s the tale […]

  Bill Ectric

  July 29, 2011

  allen ginsberg, beat generation, David Amram, Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, Grateful Dead, Jack Kerouac, Jack Micheline, Jamelah Earle, John Perry Barlow, Laki Vazakas, levi asher, Lew Welch, Marty Matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, on the road, Patricia Elliot, Philip Whalen, Ray Freed, Robert Creeley, Six Gallery, the beats, William S. Burroughs

• Jazz Man David Amram Talks About Charlie Parker, Willie Nelson, the Internet, and More

  Beat jazz pioneer David Amram has collaborated with Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Willie Nelson, and Charles Mingus. He is a multi-talented musician, composer, conductor, world traveler, scholar, and on top of all that, the first time I phoned the 76-year young dynamo, he was outside fixing a tractor on his farm in upstate New York. […]

  Bill Ectric

  June 19, 2010

  Charlie Parker, David Amram, indie music, Jazz, Willie Nelson