The Beat Generation 1939-??-??
The Beat Generation, Compilation, Compilation
Set 1
01. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac
02. Beat Generation - Bob McFadden
03. Footloose in Greenwich Village
04. Blues Montage - Leonard Feather
05. Manhattan Fable - Babs Gonzales
06. Reaching into In - Ken Nordine
07. Parker's Mood - King Pleasure
08. Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
09. Diamonds on My Windshield - Tom Waits
10. Naked Lunch [Excerpt] - William S. Burroughs
11. Bernie's Tune - Lee Konitz
12. Like Rumpelstiltskin - Don Morrow
13. Oop-Pop-A-Da - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
14. Basic Hip - John Brent
15. Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive - John Barrymore
16. Clown - Charles Mingus
17. Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves - Chamber Jazz Sextet
02. Beat Generation - Bob McFadden
03. Footloose in Greenwich Village
04. Blues Montage - Leonard Feather
05. Manhattan Fable - Babs Gonzales
06. Reaching into In - Ken Nordine
07. Parker's Mood - King Pleasure
08. Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
09. Diamonds on My Windshield - Tom Waits
10. Naked Lunch [Excerpt] - William S. Burroughs
11. Bernie's Tune - Lee Konitz
12. Like Rumpelstiltskin - Don Morrow
13. Oop-Pop-A-Da - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
14. Basic Hip - John Brent
15. Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive - John Barrymore
16. Clown - Charles Mingus
17. Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves - Chamber Jazz Sextet
Set 2
01. Hip Gahn - Lord Buckley
02. Twisted - Jon Hendricks
03. Yip Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans
04. Ha! - Charlie Ventura
05. Pull My Daisy - David Amram 06. October in the Railroad Earth - Steve Allen
07. Cool Rebellion - Howard Smith
08. Cosmic Rays - Charlie Parker
09. Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd Byrnes
10. Bebopper - Gordons
11. Hunger Is From - Ken Nordine
12. No Pictures, Please - Rod McKuen
13. Like Young - Mitchell Ayres
14. Married Blues - Kenneth Rexroth
15. Psychopathia Sezualis - Lenny Bruce
02. Twisted - Jon Hendricks
03. Yip Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans
04. Ha! - Charlie Ventura
05. Pull My Daisy - David Amram 06. October in the Railroad Earth - Steve Allen
07. Cool Rebellion - Howard Smith
08. Cosmic Rays - Charlie Parker
09. Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd Byrnes
10. Bebopper - Gordons
11. Hunger Is From - Ken Nordine
12. No Pictures, Please - Rod McKuen
13. Like Young - Mitchell Ayres
14. Married Blues - Kenneth Rexroth
15. Psychopathia Sezualis - Lenny Bruce
Set 3
01. Jack and Neal / California, Here I Come - Tom Waits
02. Readings from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" - Steve Allen
03. Interview With Jack Kerouac - Ben Hecht
04. Kerouazy - Don Morrow
05. Cool - John Brent
06. But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown, Jr.
07. Uncool - John Brent
08. High School Drag - Phillipa Fallon
09. Oop-Bop SH-Bam - Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys
10. Professor Bop - Babs Gonzales
11. Beatnik's Wish - Patsy Raye & The Beatniks
12. Like Having Fun - Elmer Bernstein
13. On Beatniks - Carl Sandburg
14. Swinghouse - Gerry Mulligan
15. Greenwich Village Poets - Charles Kuralt
16. America - Allen Ginsberg
02. Readings from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" - Steve Allen
03. Interview With Jack Kerouac - Ben Hecht
04. Kerouazy - Don Morrow
05. Cool - John Brent
06. But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown, Jr.
07. Uncool - John Brent
08. High School Drag - Phillipa Fallon
09. Oop-Bop SH-Bam - Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys
10. Professor Bop - Babs Gonzales
11. Beatnik's Wish - Patsy Raye & The Beatniks
12. Like Having Fun - Elmer Bernstein
13. On Beatniks - Carl Sandburg
14. Swinghouse - Gerry Mulligan
15. Greenwich Village Poets - Charles Kuralt
16. America - Allen Ginsberg
Comment
A three-CD box set featuring recordings from titans including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kenneth Rexroth, The Beat Generation works in tandem with Rhino's earlier compilation The Jack Kerouac Collection to paint a definitive audio portrait of one of the seminal literary uprisings of the 20th century. Because the Beats were so heavily influenced by jazz, their work ranks among the most rhythmic and lyrical in all of literature and lends itself perfectly to spoken word recordings; Kerouac's insistence that Beat stood for "beatific" aside, the name's musical implications are undeniable, with the writers' free-flowing, improvisational wordplay -- what Ginsberg dubbed "spontaneous bop prosody" -- echoing the radical innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The set also charts the Beats' own influence on musicians spanning from Lambert, Hendricks and Ross to Perry Como to Tom Waits, at the same time embracing kindred spirits including Ken Nordine, Lord Buckley, and Lenny Bruce; the inclusion of some of the material is questionable at best -- the box would probably work as effectively at two discs instead of three -- but in recapturing the singular spirit of its time, The Beat Generation is an essential document of cool.
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