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a r t i s t : v/a
t i t l e : Jazz Of The Beat Generation
d a t e : 2003
l a b e l : jazzFM (EU)
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2003
t r a c k s : 22
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 92,5 MB
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The Jazz Of The Beat Generation is a unique collection of music,
literature and spoken word material exploring jazz as a central theme in
the counter cultural explosion in Eisenhower's America of the 1950s
known as the Beat Movement.
The Beats and the post-war jazz generation have long been looked upon as
apt bedfellows. Without too much effort it can quickly be established that
the Beat figure most enthused by jazz and most ready to write about it in
his creative outpourings was the seminal Beat Poet and writer, Jack
Kerouac. References to jazz litter novels, stories and poetry by Kerouac,
widely considered America's greatest existentialist.
Researched and compiled by leading jazz writer, Keith Shadwick, The Jazz
Of The Beat Generation brings together recordings of the music and artists
Kerouac identifies throughout his work and also includes specially edited
recordings of Kerouac's own readings on bop which illuminate the music
further. Extra features are two rare essays from 1950s periodicals re-
produced, alongside extensive sleeve notes from Keith Shadwick.
What comes as something of a surprise is the exact nature of the jazz
musicians most revered by Kerouac, for his idols weren't the super-cool
contemporaries of the 1950s Beat Movement, but the great Bop players of
those writers' youths: Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Willis
Jackson, and most passionately Charlie Parker who Kerouac described as,
"Musically as important as Beethoven/ Yet not regarded as such at all".
Authenticity is the claim here and the tracks selected come from the
esteemed Savoy, Prestige, Dial and Verve catalogues amongst others.
This CD is proof positive of the ebullient, adrenaline-laced music that
Kerouac and his generation of beats, intellectuals and drop-outs lived,
loved and passed out to in those intoxicating post-war years when it
seems that messiahs really could emerge from the dark recesses of night
clubs and blow everyone away with their messages, and that Young America
would be out there, listening to every diamond-hard note.
The Jazz Of The Beat Generation will appeal to both the Kerouac buff BUT
Kerouac continues to be discovered by new generations who bristle at
becoming that man (or woman) in The Grey Flannel Suit, the ones who
regard On The Road as a bible. - http://www.amazon.co.uk
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01-Jack Kerouac - The Beat Generation [03:09]
02-Roy Eldridge - The Gasser [02:53]
03-Big Jay McNeely - Real Crazy Cool [02:47]
04-Lionel Hampton - Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop [03:17]
05-Lester Young - In A Little Spanish Town [03:10]
06-Jack Kerouac - Fantasy_The Early History Of Bop [01:50]
(section 1)
07-Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts [03:12]
08-Charlie Parker - Scrapple From The Apple [02:53]
09-Jack Kerouac - Fantasy_The Early History Of Bop [00:57]
(section 2)
10-Miles Davis - Half Nelson [02:41]
11-George Shearing - Sorry Wrong Rhumba [02:43]
12-Jack Kerouac - Fantasy_The Early History Of Bop [01:58]
(section 3)
13-Slim Gaillard - Slim's Jam [03:12]
14-Jack Kerouac - Fantasy_The Early History Of Bop [00:18]
(section 4)
15-Billy Eckstine - I Only Have Eyes For You [02:31]
16-Dexter Gordon-Wardell Gray - The Hunt [09:27]
17-Jack Kerouac - Fantasy_The Early History Of Bop [00:32]
(section 5)
18-Thelonius Monk - Hackensack [05:07]
19-Lee Konitz [02:46]
(Lennie Tristano Quintet) - Subconscious-Lee
20-Stan Getz - Stella By Starlight [02:41]
21-Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Line For Lyons [02:31]
22-Thelonius Monk - Nutty [06:37]
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67:12 min
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