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Various Artists
Jazz of the Beat Generation
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (22) - Disc #1
1. Beat Generation
2. Gasser
3. Real Crazy Cool (From Lp)
4. Het Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
5. In A Little Spanish Town
6. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop (Segment 1)
7. Salt Peanuts
8. Scrapple From The Apple
9. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop (Segment 2)
10. Slim's Jam
11. Sorry Wrong Rhumba
12. Half Nelson
13. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop (Segment 3)
14. I Only Have Eyes For You
15. Hunt
16. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop (Segment 4)
17. Hackensack
18. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop (Segment 5)
19. Subconscious-Lee
20. Stella By Starlight
21. Line For Lyons
22. Nutty

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Jazz of the Beat Generation
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Import [Generic]
Release Date: 7/8/2003
Album Type: Import, Limited Edition
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Jump Blues, Cool Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Swing Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 667342819020, 822334004529

Synopsis

Album Details

A Unique Collection of Music, Literature and Spoken Word Material Exploring Jazz as a Central Theme in the Counter Cultural Explosion in America in the 1950's Known as the Beat Movement. Packaged in a Glossy Box with Artwork Reminiscent of Fifties Beatnik Paperback Book Cover Art. Includes Deluxe 36 Page Booklet with Extensive Liner Notes. The Mixture of Jack Kerouac's Spoken Word Poetry Mixed Between Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk and Other Beat Jazz Masters Creates a Perfect Audio History of the Beat Generation.

CD Reviews

Can't be "beat!" (aw that was a terrible pun)

Tom | Chicago, IL | 03/09/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The only thing not "worth it" on this CD is the price. Thirty-something bucks is a bit steep. (I got it at a Virgin Megastore for &10!) Otherwise, a great CD with Kerouac readings interspersed with bop's greatest hits. The excerpts provide a lucid yet credible backbone (assuming you can take them seriously, not as period-piece fodder) for the body of works. The essay is also transcribed in the hefty booklet. My only complaint aside from the price is that it's an oversized box which doesn't fit into a CD rack.

But why complain when you have Dizzy, Miles Davis, Hamp, and Monk at hand!? You can't!"