By Dan Ouellette, Senior Editor ZEALnyc, November 7, 2018
At age 87, the curious jazz connoisseur, accomplished classical composer and agriculturist at heart, David Amram stands tall in the wisdom of the arts. Largely underappreciated in jazz circles, he firmly and singularly expresses his passion to encourage arts-minded people of all ages to discover how to follow their dreams. In an email exchange before we conversed, Amram wrote, “Jazz and all sincere artistic forms of expression are important, and for all naysayers who tell people to give up before they even get started because there is no real demographic to justify devoting yourself to what you love, I’ll hope to remind everyone that…#1: There are never too many sunsets and #2: There is never too much beauty.”
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