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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:02 am 
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This 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.


im uploading this for mgl tonight, if anyone else is interested then give me a PM

listen to 'Fantasy: The Early History of Bop', it has the most amazing sound and texture to the words


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:54 am 
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my wife has this.

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I have almost purchased this 50 times...gimme a shot if you would.

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A student borrowed this from me and never gave it back.

It has more than you would ever want from that great beat poet, Fred Allen.


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I would really really like to get this if possible.

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id like this too.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:32 pm 
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i thought i posted to this thread but there is nothing. weird.

anyway, what i thought i had already posted was, please if you could i'd love to get my hands on this. the professor i'm doing an independent study with next year is a big beat generation scholar and he loves kerouac. if by chance he doesn't have this already i'd love to be the one to break it to him.

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i have this i can upload if anyone is interested....
(but not until tomorrow night...)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... oding=UTF8

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i have this i can upload if anyone is interested....
(but not until tomorrow night...)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... oding=UTF8


that actually looks pretty damn sick. i don't know if i really need all this shit though (or rather if my computer's memory can afford it) so i won't ask you to upload it but i'll keep it in mind.

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i've been meaning to upload it for a non-obner friend anyway....so, it's going to be uploaded anyway.

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i think i got everybody, tell me if i didnt

had to use megaupload, cos it was a big file


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