Jack Kerouac - The Beat Generation: His Complete Albums (2016) [Cool, Spoken Word]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Artist: Jack Kerouac
Album: The Beat Generation: His Complete Albums
Genre: Cool, Spoken Word
Label: Hoodoo Records
Released: 2016
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:

CD 1 - Poetry for the Beat Generation (with Steve Allen):

1. October in the Railroad Earth (7:12)
2. Deadbelly (1:07)
3. Charlie Parker (3:47)
4. The Sounds of the Universe Coming in My Window (3:20)
5. One Mother (0:51)
6. Goofing at the Table (1:47)
7. Bowery Blues (3:58)
8. Abraham (1:19)
9. Dave Brubeck (0:33)
10. I Had a Slouch Hat Too, One Time (6:15)
11. The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception (1:58)
12. McDougal Street Blues (3:28)
13. The Moon Her Majesty (1:41)
14. I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous (0:38)
15. Readings from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" (6:51)

CD 2 - Blues and Haikus (with Al Cohn & Zoot Sims):

1. American Haikus (10:06)
2. Hard Hearted Old Farmer (2:18)
3. The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma (3:54)
4. Poems from the Unpublished "Book of Blues" (14:14)
5. Old Western Movies (6:43)
6. Conclusion of the Railroad Earth (10:06)

CD 3 - Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation:

1. The Beat Generation (3:15)
2. Poems (Fragments): San Francisco/Street Scene/Money Honey/Westinghouse Elevators/Old Age/Praised Be Man/The Sad Turtle (3:25)
3. Lucien Midnight: The Sound of the Universe in My Window, Part 1 (2:26)
4. Lucien Midnight: The Sound of the Universe in My Window, Part 2 (2:00)
5. Fantasy: The Early History of Bop (10:59)
6. Excerpts from "The Subterraneans" (3:14)
7. Visions of Neal: Neal and the Three Stooges, Part 1 (3:15)
8. Visions of Neal: Neal and the Three Stooges, Part 2 (13:56)
9. Is there a Beat Generation? (12:36)
10. Interview with Ben Hecht (1958) (15:30)

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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is considered a literary iconoclast and a pioneer of the Beat Generation (along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg) who is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement.
Author of various books considered classics today, among them On the Road, The Subterraneans, and Visions of Cody, Kerouac also produced three LPs on which he recited his own prose and poetry. On two of those albums, Poetry for the Beat Generation (Hanover HML5000), and Blues and Haikus (Hanover HM5006), he was backed by jazz musicians (pianist Steve Allen on the former, and saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims on the latter). The third LP, On the Beat Generation (Verve MGV- 15005), presented him reciting unaccompanied.
This set compiles the three albums in their entireties, plus all existing additional material from the sessions, as well as rare bonus items: a radio show featuring Kerouac again with Steve Allen, an interview with the writer made by Ben Hecht, and a conference about the Beat Generation.