The Beat Generation 3CD (1992)
Volume One
1-01 Jack Kerouac - San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) 3:09
Voice, Written-By - Jack Kerouac
From Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation, Verve, recorded 05/13/1959, released 01/1962.
1-02 Bob McFadden & Dor - The Beat Generation 2:03
Brunswick single, released 08/1959.
1-03 Unknown Artist - Footloose In Greenwich Village 12:32
Excerpt from Radio WYNC news feature, broadcast 05/1960.
1-04 Langston Hughes With Leonard Feather - Blues Montage 3:12
Bass - Milt Hinton
Clarinet, Saxophone [Tenor] - Sam Taylor
Drums - Osie Johnson
Piano - Al Williams
Trombone - Vic Dickinson
Trumpet - Red Allen
From Weary blues, MGM, recorded 03/17/1958.
1-05 Babs Gonzales - Manhattan Fable 2:36
Vocals - Babs Gonzales
Bruce single, released 12/1954.
1-06 Ken Nordine - Reaching Into In 1:53
Bass - Emmett Frazier
Drums - Bob Frazier
Narrator - Ken Nordine
Piano, Vibraphone - Richard Campbell (2)
Woodwind - Ken Soderbloom
From Word Jazz Vol. II, Dot, released 1960.
1-07 King Pleasure - Parker's Mood 2:57
Bass - Percy Heath
Drums - Kenny Clarke
Piano - John Lewis
Vocals - King Pleasure
Prestige single, recorded 12/1953, released 05/1954.
1-08 Nelson Riddle - Route 66 Theme 2:06
Capitol single, released 05/1962.
1-09 Tom Waits - Diamonds On My Windshield 3:10
Bass - Jim Hughart
Drums - Jim Gordon
Vocals - Tom Waits
From The Heart of Saturday Night, Asylum, released 08/1974.
1-10 William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch (Excerpt) 6:26
From Call me Burroughs, ESP, released 1966.
1-11 Lee Konitz With Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Bernie's Tune 3:31
Bass - Carson Smith
Drums - Larry Bunker
Saxophone [Alto] - Lee Konitz
Saxophone [Baritone] - Gerry Mulligan
Trumpet - Chet Baker
From The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentee with Chet Baker, Mosaic, recorded 01/1953, released 1983.
1-12 Don Morrow - Like Rumpelstiltskin 6:18
Bass - Jack Zimmermann
Drums - Don Lamond
Guitar - Barry Galbraith
Narrator - Don Morrow
Percussion - Ted Sommers
Performer [Reeds] - Jerome Richardson , Phil Bodner
Piano - Lou Garisto
Trombone - Chauncey Welsch
Trumpet - Doc Severinson*
Voice - Ann Thomas , Herb Duncan , Joyce Gordon , Phil Kramer
From Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales, Roulette, released 01/1961.
1-13 Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra - Oop-Pop-A-Da 3:08
Bass - Ray Brown
Drums - Joe Harris
Guitar - John Collins
Piano - John Lewis
Saxophone [Alto] - Howard Johnson, John Brown
Saxophone [Baritone] - Cecil Payne
Saxophone [Tenor] - James Moody , Joe Gayles
Trombone - Bill Shepard* , Taswell Baird
Trumpet - Dave Burns , Elmon Wright , Matthew McKay , Ray Orr
Vibraphone - Milt Jackson
Vocals - Kenneth Hagood & The Ensemble
Vocals, Trumpet - Dizzy Gillespie
RCA Victor single, recorded 08/22/47, released 10/1947.
1-14 Del Close & John Brent - Basic Hip 1:11
From How to Speak Hip, Mercury, released 1961.
1-15 John Drew Barrymore - Christopher Columbus Digs The Jive 3:04
MGM single, released 06/1958.
1-16 Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop Featuring Jean Shepherd - Clown 12:11
Bass - Charles Mingus
Drums - Danny Richmond
Narrator - Jean Shepherd
Piano - Wade Legge
Saxophone [Tenor] - Shafi Hadi
Trombone - Jimmy Knepper
From The Clown, Atlantic, recorded 02/13/1957.
1-17 Kenneth Patchen - Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves 1:15
Bass, Bassoon, Contrabassoon - Fred Dutton
Drums, Timpani - Tom Reynolds
Piano, Electric Piano, Percussion, French Horn - Allyn Ferguson
Saxophone [Alto], Clarinet [Bass] - Frank Leal
Saxophone [Tenor], Saxophone [Baritone], Clarinet - Modesto Briseno
Trumpet, Percussion - Robert Wilson
From Kenneth Patchen, Cadence, released 03/1958.
Volume Two
2-01 Lord Buckley - The Hip Gahn 6:09
From Euphoria, Volume II, Vaya, recorded 1951, released 1956.
2-02 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Twisted 2:14
Bass - Ike Isaacs
Drums - Walter Bolden
Piano - Gildo Mahones
Trumpet - Harry Edison
Vocals - Annie Ross , Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks
From The Hottest Group in Jazz, Columbia, recorded 08/06/1959, released 12/1959.
2-03 Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans - Yip Roc Heresy 2:28
Bass - Clyde Lombardi
Drums - Charlie Smith (2)
Guitar, Vocals - Slim Gaillard
Piano - Maceo Williams
Mercury single, recorded 08/1951, released 12/1951.
2-04 Charlie Ventura - Ha 2:46
Bass - Keith Mitchell
Drums - Ed Shaughnessy
Piano - Dan McKenna
Saxophone - Boots Mussulli , Charlie Ventura
Trombone - Benny Green
Trumpet - Conte Candoli
RCA Victor single, recorded 09/30/1949, released 12/1949.
2-05 David Amram Quintet - Pull My Daisy 4:29
Bass - Herb Bushler , Lyle Atkinson
Drums - Al Harewood
French Horn, Piano, Guitar, Flute, Bouzouki, Kazoo, Percussion [Headbone] - David Amram
Oud - George Mrgdichian
Percussion - Arthur Edgehill
Saxophone [Alto] - Jerry Dodgion
Saxophone [Baritone] - Pepper Adams
Viola - Midhat Serbagi
Vocals - Ali Hafid , Lynn Sheffield
From No More Walls, RCA Red Seal recorded 06/31/1961.
2-06 Steve Allen - October In The Railroad Earth 7:06
Piano - Steve Allen (3)
Voice, Written-By - Jack Kerouac
From Poetry for the Beat generation, Hanover, recorded 03/1958, released 06/1959.
2-07 Howard K. Smith - Cool Rebellion 20:13
Excerpt from The Hidden Revolution CBS Radio [news series], broadcast 04/05/1960.
2-08 Charlie Parker Quartet - Cosmic Rays 3:05
Bass - Teddy Kotick
Drums - Max Roach
Piano - Hank Jones
Saxophone [Alto] - Charlie Parker
Clef single, recorded 12/30/1952, released 01/1955.
2-09 Edd Byrnes - Kookie's Mad Pad 2:03
From Kookie, Warner, released 1959.
2-10 The Gordons With Hank Jones Trio - Bebopper 2:44
Bass - Charles Mingus
Drums - Max Roach
Piano - Hank Jones
Vocals - George Gordon , George Gordon Jr. , Honey Gordon , Richard Gordon
Debut single, recorded 04/29/1953.
2-11 Ken Nordine - Hunger Is From 3:48
Bass - Jimmy Bond
Cello - Fred Katz
Drums - Forest Horn
Guitar - John Pisano
Narrator - Ken Nordine
Woodwind - Paul Horn
From Word Jazz Vol. II, Dot Jazz Horizons, released 1957.
2-12 Rod McKuen - No Pictures Please 4:03
From Beatsville, HiFi, released 11/1959.
2-13 Perry Como - Like Young 2:53
Bass - Paul Gray
Guitar - Howard Heitmeyer
From For the Young at Heart, RCA, released 1961.
2-14 Kenneth Rexroth - Married Blues 3:22
From Poetry and Jazz / At the Blackhawk, Fantasy, released 05/1960.
2-15 Lenny Bruce - Psychopathia Sexualis 2:24
Voice, Written-By - Lenny Bruce
From The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce, Fantasy, recorded 1958, released 01/1959.
Volume Three
3-01 Tom Waits - Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come 4:57
Bass - Jim Hughart
Drums - Shelly Manne
Saxophone [Tenor] - Frank Vicari
Vocals - Tom Waits
From Foreign Affairs, Asylum, recorded 07/08/1977, released 10/1977.
3-02 Steve Allen - Readings From "On The Road" & "Visions Of Cody" 3:28
Piano - Steve Allen (3)
Voice, Written-By - Jack Kerouac
From The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, NBC TV, broadcast 11/16/1959.
3-03 Ben Hecht - Interview With Jack Kerouac 15:29
Interviewer - Ben Hecht
Voice - Jack Kerouac
From The Ben Hecht Show, WABC TV, broadcast 10/17/1958.
3-04 Don Morrow - Kerouazy 2:06
Bass - Jack Zimmermann
Drums - Don Lamond
Guitar - Barry Galbraith
Narrator - Don Morrow
Percussion - Ted Sommers
Performer [Reeds] - Jerome Richardson , Phil Bodner
Piano - Lou Garisto
Trombone - Chauncey Welsch
Trumpet - Doc Severinson
Voice - Ann Thomas , Herb Duncan , Joyce Gordon , Phil Kramer
From Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales, Roulette, released 01/1961.
3-05 Del Close & John Brent - Cool 3:50
From How to Speak Hip, Mercury, released 1961.
3-06 Oscar Brown Jr - But I Was Cool 2:53
From Sin & Soul, Columbia, recorded 10/23/1960, released 12/19/1960.
3-07 Del Close & John Brent - Uncool 0:58
From How to Speak Hip, Mercury, released 1961
3-08 Philippa Fallon - High School Drag 2:14
MGM single, released 06/1958.
3-09 Kenny Clarke And His 52th Street Boys - Oop-Bop-Sh-Bam 3:04
Arranged By - Walter Fuller
Bass - Al Hall
Drums - Kenny Clarke
Guitar - John Collins (2)
Piano - Bud Powell
Saxophone [Alto] - Sonny Stitt
Saxophone [Baritone] - Eddie Erteuill
Saxophone [Tenor] - Ray Abrams
Trumpet - Fats Navarro , Kenny Dorham
Swing single
3-10 Three Bips & A Bop Featuring Babs Gonzales - Professor Bop 2:26
Bass, Vocals - Art Phipps
Drums - Jack Parker
French Horn - Julius Watkins
Piano - Linton Garner
Saxophone [Alto] - Jordan Fordin
Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins
Trombone - Bennie Green , J.J. Johnson
Vocals - Babs Gonzales
Capitol single, recorded 01/20/1949, released 04/04/1949.
3-11 Patsy Raye & The Beatniks - Beatnik's Wish 2:28
Roulette single, released 11/1959.
3-12 Elmer Bernstein - Like Having Fun 2:17
Conductor, Composed By - Elmer Bernstein
From Staccato: a Revue Television Production starring John Cassavetes, Capitol, released 11/1959.
3-13 Carl Sandburg - On Beatniks 0:27
CBC Television news feature, broadcast 10/28/1959.
3-14 Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Swinghouse 2:53
Bass - Carston Smith
Drums - Larry Bunker
Saxophone [Baritone] - Gerry Mulligan
Trumpet - Chet Baker
From Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Pacific Jazz, recorded 04/27/1953.
3-15 Charles Kuralt - The Greenwich Village Poets 1:36
CBC Television news feature, broadcast 06/09/1959.
3-16 Allen Ginsberg - America 4:47
Voice, Written-By - Allen Ginsberg
From Howl, Fantasy, recorded 06/59.