''Subway Night'' is an album by jazz hornist
David Amram
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Track listing
#"Fabulous Fifties"
#"Little Momma"
#"Credo"
#"Subway Night"
#"Professor and the Panhandler"
#"Horn and Hardart Succotash Blues"
#"Neon Casbah"
#"East and West"
#"Ballad for Red Allen"
#"Message to the Politicians of the World"
#"Mean Dean"
Personnel
*David Amram - piano, vocals, guitar, flute
*Macdougal Street Composers - choir, chorus
*Irwin Markowitz
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Born the youngest of seven children of Russian-Jewish immigrants who disembarked in Baltimore, and settled on ...
- trumpet
*Tony Miranda - French horn
*Jack O'Hara - guitar
*Randy Peyton Quartet - choir, chorus
*Henry Schuman - oboe
*Midhat Serbagi - viola
*Brooks Tillotson - French horn
*Wilmer Wise - trumpet
*Andy Statman
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Life and career
Statman was born in New York City and grew up in the borough of Queens. Beginning at age 12, he learned to play banjo and gu ...
- mandolin
*Al Harewood
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- drums
*William Arrowsmith - English horn
*Souren Baronian - clarinet
*Dick Baxter - engineer
*Sam T. Brown
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* Sam, Benin
* Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Iran
* Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place
People and fictional c ...
- guitar
*James Buffington
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Buffington was a busy studio and jazz player on the French horn. He was ...
- French horn
*Herb Bushler
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Bushler played piano and tuba in his youth before picking up double bass; he is classically trained in bass and has performe ...
- bass
*Don Butterfield
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Biography
Butterfield began to play the tuba in high school. He wanted to play trumpet, but the band director assigned him to tuba inst ...
- tuba
*Earl Chapin - French horn
*Jane Cochran - oboe
*Kenny Kosek
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- violin
*Marvin Feinsmith
Marvin-Matis P. Feinsmith (1932/1933 – February 9, 2020), bassoonist, was a native New Yorker and a graduate of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, the Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music as first bassoonist with a master's de ...
- bassoon
*Charles Ganimian Charles 'Chick' Ganimian (1926–1988), was an Armenian Americans, Armenian–American professional musician and singer known for his virtuosity on the oud. Ganimian played the music of Anatolia, Turkey, and Armenia.
Early life
Ganimian was born in ...
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*Ali Candido Hafid - bongos, congas
*David Bromberg
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- electric guitar
*Pepper Adams
Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer. He composed 42 pieces, was the leader on eighteen albums spanning 28 years, and participated in 600 sessions as a si ...
- baritone saxophone
*Joe Beck
Joe Beck (July 29, 1945 – July 22, 2008) was an American jazz guitarist who was active for over 30 years.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Beck moved to Manhattan in his teens, playing six nights a week in a trio setting, which gave him an opp ...
- electric guitar
*Joe Henderson
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- tenor saxophone
*Bobby Jones
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People
* Bobby (given name), a list of names
* Bobby (actress), from Bangladesh
* Bobby (rapper) (born 1995), from South Korea
* Bobby (screenwriter) (born 1983), Indian screenwriter
* Bobby, old slang for a const ...
- tenor saxophone, clarinet
*Thad Jones
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Biography
Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan, ...
- trumpet
*George Mgrdichian -
*Collin Walcott
Collin Walcott (April 24, 1945 – November 8, 1984) was an American musician who worked in jazz and world music.
Early life
Walcott was born in New York City, United States. He studied violin and tympani in his youth, and was a percussion stud ...
- tabla
*Bill Watrous
William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love", which he recorded on a 1993 alb ...
- trombone
*Joe Wilder
Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored h ...
- trumpet
References
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1972 albums
David Amram albums
RCA Records albums