The Jack Kerouac Collection

The Jack Kerouac Collection Artist: Jack Kerouac
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3


UPC: 081227093921
EAN: 0081227093921
ASIN: B0000032RQ


Release Date: 1990-06-12

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  10. Voices of the Poets

Tracks:

  1. October In The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  2. Deadbelly - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  3. Charlie Parker - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  4. The Sounds Of The Universe Coming In My Window - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  5. One Mother - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  6. Goofing At The Table - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  7. Bowery Blues - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  8. Abraham - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
  9. 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

Tracks:

  1. American Haikus - Jack Kerouac
  2. Hard Hearted Old Farmer - Jack Kerouac
  3. The Last Hotel & Some Of The Dharma - Jack Kerouac
  4. Poems From The Unpublished 'Book Of Blues' - Jack Kerouac
  5. Old Western Movies - Jack Kerouac
  6. Conclusion Of The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac

Tracks:

  1. The Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac
  2. Poems (Fragments): San Francisco/Street Scene/Money Honey/Westinghouse Elevators/Old Age... - Jack Kerouac
  3. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds Of The Universe In My Window, Pt. 1 - Jack Kerouac
  4. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds Of The Universe In My Window, Pt. II - Jack Kerouac
  5. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop - Jack Kerouac
  6. Excerpts From 'The Subterraneans' - Jack Kerouac
  7. Visions Of Neal: Neal And The Three Stooges, Pt. I - Jack Kerouac
  8. Visions Of Neal: Neal And The Three Stooges, Pt.II - Jack Kerouac
  9. Is There A Beat Generation? - Jack Kerouac

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Superb Voice Searches for and Finds Itself.......2006-12-19

A friend gave me this great CD collection and photo book for Christmas 2000 a month after we met. I listened to it sparingly then, but lately when I have trouble sleeping, I put one of its three great CDs on to soothe me to sleep and encounter my own personal Book of Dreams. There is Kerouac with Steve Allen riffing "October in the Railroad Earth" from "Lonesome Traveler", scatting Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck, and most spectacular of all, a bonus track with Jack reading from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody." I never have heard anything quite as haunting and poignant as Jack reading the final passage from "On The Road" ... "Dean Moriarty the father we never found," followed by applause. Having read almost all of Kerouac in the ten years of my foolish youth beginning at age 15, I grew disenchanted with him as the years dragged on. These audios are a new inspiration to us burn-outs; it will be quite a while before I listen to that final passage again, delivered with sober humbleness, and thought for new appraisal of the blazing artistry behind the man. The second CD is the Verve recording of "The Beat Generation" with finely honed rapid=fire haikus and other bebop poetry as well as "Visions of Neal" and bonus track "Is There A Beat Generation" at Brandeis in November 1959. The third CD has haikus, and very notably some of the very late posthumously released gargantuan "Some of (the) Dharma" and also "Conclusion of the Railroad Earth". There subsequently have been several other Kerouac CDs worth searching out; all prove his true genius and that he was not just another drunken bum. Hearing his voice, sober, clear, racing, and spooky, gives a whole new light to his written art, indelibly making clear that he was in fact a great true scat and jazz artist. Nobody should miss this one. It raised my opinion of him as an editor-sanitized pretender to one of the most important voices and writers of American literature ever.

5 out of 5 stars Jack the Great.......2006-08-31

Jack Kerouac is not my favorite "Beat" writer...that goes to Lawrence Ferlinghetti...but Jack has a style that many have tried and have successfully failed to imitate. He's an original. He's one-of-a-kind. He's totally his own. I mean, we all are, but his originality goes deeper than his footprints...his is right at the core and whenever you come from the core of beingness, you stamp everything you touch with a kind of sacred beauty.

Mind you, it does not make everything flawless. But that's the beauty of life, there is perfection in imperfection. Perfection is not stingy. It is not greedy. Perfection flows through everything even though it may be channeled through some pretty imperfect channels.

"Jack Kerouac. Bum saint. Priest of the down 'n out. Reluctant messiah of the spoken/broken word that cries everytime someone crucifies it with form and arrangement and rules...what fools who do this for they miss the elegance, the beauty, the dance that comes from a mind fixed on trance being...seeing only ironic catholic statues weeping at the lost and the sleeping...."

There's my tribute to a man that I deeply cherish.

This collection is quite good. It really paints a great picture of the artist and gives you almost a voyeuristic view of a guy who really didn't want to be the "leader" of the "Beat Generation".

He's gone now and the literary world has somehow never been quite the same. Somehow writers nowadays think that all their writing has to be of a high gloss sheen...that it has to be perfect...that it has to be over-edited...get raw...seek awe...and you will glorify the "I" of the soul.


5 out of 5 stars This is the greatest treat of the beatnik era........2005-09-09

From the first sound of the piano on "October in the Railroad Earth", you will know then that your money was well spent on this set. The book inside with all of the pictures and quotes from fellow beats such as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and many others along with 3 discs of Jack reading his poetry and prose, what could be better?
The first disc is Jack reading accompanied by Steve Allen on piano. His best pieces are found here, such as "October", "Charlie Parker", "I had a slouch hat too one time", and the famous reading of "On the Road" from The Steve Allen Show.
The second disc is when Jack is in the studio with Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, two brilliant sax players, and it has a loose feel with the restarts and the talking in the background before a take. The jewel on here is the readings from the then unpublished Book of Blues.
The last disc is simply Jack reading with no music, but the rhythm of his speech is easily heard and it is a joy to listen to.
this is the essential set for fans of Kerouac or anyone interested in the beat era. A must buy!

5 out of 5 stars joy & sorrow.......2004-02-12

The first album in this box set, which contains 15 tracks of Kerouac reciting prose while Steve Allen plays beautiful jazz piano, is dazzling. There is something magical and heartbreaking about the record.. Listening to it makes you feel as if you're sitting next to Jack himself at a bar, drinking, as he tells you these stories and talks to you. For any fan of Kerouac's writing, this album is a must. Once you've heard this, you will read his books knowing the sweet voice that is talking emphatically.

5 out of 5 stars Jack's voice.......2003-01-16

Jack Kerouac is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and I beleive he also has one of the best voices. The difference between reading the book yourself and listening to Jack read it is all in his voice. It is, in a word, mesmerizing. I first heard some of this collection in my Beat Generation class in college, and I had to get the collection.

Salvador Dali said that Jack Kerouac was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. I don't think anyone can listen to his voice, see his pictures in this collection, and appreciate his writings without agreeing whole-heartedly.

This collection of works is more than a few good CDs--it's an experience.

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