[New-Poetry] David Amram, musician and jazz poet

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/nov/10/whereidratherbe.saturday?gusrc=rss&feed=travelWhere I'd rather be
David Amram, musician and jazz poet

The Guardian Saturday November 10 2007 
What are you working on right now? 

I'm in London to play at the London International Poetry and Song Festival, to mark the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. I'll be doing what I did with Jack in October 1957 at our first jazz poetry reading at the Brata Art Gallery in New York - accompanying poets and readers. 


I'll play every night, spontaneously accompanying whoever wants me to. I don't need to have read the poetry before, I just listen. On Monday night I'm doing my Cairo to Kerouac piece, playing music inspired by my travels in Africa with some Kerouac readings. I hope to encourage young people to come closer to the creative world, even if they work as barristers or bus drivers. That was the epitome of Jack's philosophy.


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