Glommed torrents of Beat Jazz -- Pictures from the Gone World Vols. 1 & 2.
"Beat Jazz" is a out-of-print 20 track compilation of cool 50s style jazzy beat numbers. Kind of Beat era recordings from spoken word, to sung poetry, to bebop, to doo-wop, to R&B, to hipster and jive....
It was released on Pesky Serpent Records in 1994.
I was a beatnik-wannabe in my early teens, and one of my faves was Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Finally made a pilgrimmage in '67 to his City Lights bookshop in SF's North Beach on our way to the dying scene in Haight Ashbury. No LF on these recordings but there is a track of Bob Dorough reading 'Dog'. Found it on YT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ty_8Nw-CY
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