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| 1. San Fransisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac | |||
| 2. The Beat Generation - Bob McFadden And Dor | |||
| 3. Footloose In Greenwhich Village - Various Artists | |||
| 4. Blues Montage - Langston Hughes, With Leonard Feather | |||
| 5. Manhatten Fable - Babs Gonzales | |||
| 6. Reach Into In - Ken Nordine | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Hip Gahn - Lord Buckley | |||
| 2. Twisted - Lambert, Hendricks And Ross | |||
| 3. Yip Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard And His Middle Europeans | |||
| 4. Ha - Charlie Ventura And His Orchestra | |||
| 5. Pull My Daisy - David Amram Quintet With Lynn Sheffield | |||
| 6. October In The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac And Steve Allen | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Jack And Neal/California, Here I Come - Tom Waits | |||
| 2. Reading From 'On The Road' And 'Visions Of Cody' - Jack Kerouac With Steve Allen | |||
| 3. Interview With Jack Kerouac - Ben Hacht | |||
| 4. Kerouazy - Don Morrow | |||
| 5. Cool - Del Close And John Brent | |||
| 6. But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown Jr. | |||
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent introduction to the Beat scene.,
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This review is from: The Beat Generation (Audio CD)
This is an absolutely enchanting and brilliantly observed insight into the Beat movement of the late nineteen-forties to mid nineteen-fifties. There are two different presentations of this set around, a 2-disk and a 3-disk. I would strongly suggest you go for the 3-disk set if you can find it. Excellent interviews, readings and music. A wonderful introduction to the period.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT BEAT COLLECTION BUT BEWARE THE MP3!!,
By Bored of Folk (Nowhere, Everywhere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Beat Generation (Audio CD)
This is a great but sadly out of print compilation of spoken word, be bop and jazz classics from the Beat Generation. A real must for all Beat fans, if only because we have excerpts read by Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg and the beautiful Pull my Daisy too.
Beware thinking that the MP3 is a cheap way to get this pricey box set though - it is a completely unrelated album of tracks of hip hop music - a glitch that Amazon need to fix.
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4.9 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the end all,
By mason williams - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Beat Generation (Audio CD)
hands down , without a doubt , the most entertaining box set i have ever heard (i own 3,000 + cds) red hot jazz , blues , and lounge with bits of news reports , poetry readings , and general zanniness . i have never laughed so hard while having my mind blown . this collection is so good it almost made me stop buying cds . it can't get any better . now i have to save up for the kerouac box .
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Root, Vout and Dig It ! ! !,
By Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Beat Generation (Audio CD)
What I love about the Beat Generation Box Set is that in addition to serving as a great social portrait of the era, as well as hipster culture, throughout it maintains a sense of humor and focuses on its strange relationship and rivalry with American pop culture. Beyond mere literary readings, a colorful cast of charactors make the scene... from beboppers to hipsters, bongo beating philosophers to comedians and pop icons arise. One track might be Annie Ross's bebopistic tribute to Schizophrenia "Twisted", the next a recitation by Lord Buckley or Ken Nordine - in other tracks, square singers try to cash in on bebop and hipster culture... reporters go out on the streets of Greenwich village in search of America's lost youth, while others show beat generation icons in action from Dizzy Gillespie to Slim Galliard and Ray Brown Jr. - - Cuts from the rare, "How to Speak Hip" and even Lenny Bruce's Psychopathia Sexualis (I'm in Love With a Horse That Comes from Dallas) appear.While by no means comprehensive, the three CDs along with the illustrated booklet are not only educational but incredibly entertaining. If you enjoy this album, be sure to check out a reissue of Ken Nordine's Colors, as well as stuff by Harry The Hipster Gibson, Slim Galliard and Leon Watson, as well as the movie, "Sweet Love Bitter" (based on the life of Charlie Parker.) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's 1957 Forever!,
By M. Hori "Jesse Glass" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Beat Generation (Audio CD)
It's January, 2005 and sleeting outside in Shin-Urayasu, Japan, but I'm here wailing with Jack Kerouac. Steve Allen is tinkling away on the piano, and Ben Hecht is waiting to ask Jack some smart-aleck questions, which Jack will answer in an innocent, pure-heart, eternal good-guy way before heading back out on the road. This three-CD set is incredible. Not only do we get a sense of what the big names of beat-dom were up to, but we are treated to little-heard beat-fare, like a hyper-beat effusion on falling in love with a horse from Lenny Bruce, and zany reflections of beat-dom from such square media dogs like Perry Como crooning about his young beat honey, and Howard K. Smith, who gives us the low-down on THE COOL REBELLION. Kenneth Patchen's "The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves" is a gem, and Kenneth Rexroth's hang-dog rendition of "Married Blues" is yet another great cut I would never have heard otherwise. Langston Hughes fronting his own jazz band is a treat too, but there's lots more. After listening to all 3 CDs one can get a pretty good idea of the scene, both from the inside, hipster's angle, and from the square's point of view, too. Generous cuts from Gerry Mulligan's Quartet have me snapping my fingers and reaching for my sunglasses. Forget the sushi and pass the nutmeg!
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