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Jack Kerouac 1939-??-?? The Jack Kerouac Collection, Compilation, Compilation
Set 101. October In The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
02. Deadbelly - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
03. Charlie Parker - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
04. The Sounds Of The Universe Coming In My Window - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
05. One Mother - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
06. Goofing At The Table - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
07. Bowery Blues - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
08. Abraham - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 09. Dave Brubeck - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
10. I Had A Slouch Hat Too One Time - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
11. The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
12. McDougal Street Blues - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
13. The Moon Her Majesty - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
14. I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
15. Readings From 'On The Road' and 'Visions Of Cody' - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
Set 201. American Haikus - Jack Kerouac
02. Hard Hearted Old Farmer - Jack Kerouac
03. The Last Hotel & Some Of Dharma - Jack Kerouac
04. Poems From The Unpublished 'Book Of Blues' - Jack Kerouac
05. Old Western Movies - Jack Kerouac
06. Colclusion Of The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac
Set 301. The Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac
02. Poems (Fragments): San Francisco/Street Scene/Money Honey/Westinghouse Elevators/Old Age... - Jack Kerouac
03. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds Of The Universe In My Window, Pt. 1 - Jack Kerouac
04. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds Of The Universe In My Window, Pt. II - Jack Kerouac
05. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop - Jack Kerouac
06. Excerpts From 'The Subterraneans' - Jack Kerouac
07. Visions Of Neal: Neal And The Three Stooges, Pt. I - Jack Kerouac
08. Visions Of Neal: Neal And The Three Stooges, Pt.II - Jack Kerouac
09. Is There A Beat Generation? - Jack Kerouac
CommentThis triple-disc box set is centered on the reissue and restoration of Jack Kerouac's three long-players: Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959), Blues and Haikus (1959), as well as Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation(1960). The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) also adds over a half-hour of previously unissued material. These include outtakes from the Blues and Haikus sessions, recitations from On the Road and Visions of Cody from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show, as well as a candid recording from a symposium titled "Is There a Beat Generation," which was held at the Hunter College Playhouse and sponsored by Brandeis University. As a poet, Kerouac's readings were rarely as entertaining as those of his contemporaries William S. Burroughs or Allen Ginsberg. However, the liberation in his writing style is absolutely replete with a youthful joy tethered by somber optimism. His blend of achingly poetic verbiage and stream of consciousness were intersected by his rapier wit and perpetual vision. Much like the instrumental jazz musicians of his time, his poetry and prose were wide open to interpretation and the delivery often bears a crude and uncomfortable nature -- much like the uncertainty that faces many of the characters he animates. Accompanying Kerouac on his spoken-word jazz odysseys are Steve Allen (piano) on Poetry for the Beat Generation as well as Zoot Sims (tenor sax) and Al Cohn (tenor sax) on Blues and Haikus. The Jack Kerouac Collection also includes a 32-page liner-notes booklet with essays and commentary from Ginsberg, Burroughs, Jerry Garcia, Ray Manzarek, David Perry, and Steve Allen, among others. There is also copious discographical, biographical, and bibliographical information as well. This set is an essential piece of Americana and is highly recommended for literary buffs and beatniks alike.