There aren't many nonagenarians as invested in the present as David Amram. Almost 92, the man is a wealth of Greenwich Village lore and a working composer, author and musician who plays 35 instruments.
He recalls asking Charlie Parker in 1952 about how he felt about the title of his 1945 tune ‘Now’s the Time’ being seven years old and getting a reply that he took to heart. “Now was , now is and now will always be the time,” said Bird. “Because now is the right time.”Amram moved into a six floor walkup in the Lower East Side in 1955 and three weeks later found himself playing in the Village with jazz legend Charlie Mingus.
“I was just enjoying the hell out of it!” he laughs. “We were all spectacularly unsuccessful commercially and we just thought, boy are we lucky that we can all be together doing this at this moment.
Coming up for Amram in the festival are more concerts, a walking tour, a discussion of Kerouac, a salute to Phil Ochs and more before he flies to North Carolina to play once again at Farm Aid.
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