Beat Generation (Rhino - 1992) CD1
A three-CD box set featuring recordings from titans including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kenneth Rexroth, The Beat Generation works in tandem with Rhino's earlier compilation The Jack Kerouac Collection to paint a definitive audio portrait of one of the seminal literary uprisings of the 20th century. Because the Beats were so heavily influenced by jazz, their work ranks among the most rhythmic and lyrical in all of literature and lends itself perfectly to spoken word recordings; Kerouac's insistence that Beat stood for "beatific" aside, the name's musical implications are undeniable, with the writers' free-flowing, improvisational wordplay -- what Ginsberg dubbed "spontaneous bop prosody" -- echoing the radical innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The set also charts the Beats' own influence on musicians spanning from Lambert, Hendricks and Ross to Perry Como to Tom Waits, at the same time embracing kindred spirits including Ken Nordine, Lord Buckley, and Lenny Bruce; the inclusion of some of the material is questionable at best -- the box would probably work as effectively at two discs instead of three -- but in recapturing the singular spirit of its time, The Beat Generation is an essential document of cool.
(Jason Ankeny - allmusic; 4,5/5)
1. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac
2. The Beat Generation - Dor, Bob McFadden
3. Footloose in Greenwich Village
4. Blues Montage - Langston Hughes, Leonard Feather
5. Manhattan Fable - Babs Gonzales
6. Reaching into In - Ken Nordine
7. Parker's Mood - King Pleasure
8. Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
9. Diamonds on My Windshield - Tom Waits
10. Naked Lunch [Excerpt] - William S. Burroughs
11. Bernie's Tune - Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Lee Konitz
12. Like Rumpelstiltskin - Don Morrow
13. Oop-Pop-A-Da - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
14. Basic Hip - John Brent, Del Close
15. Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive - John Barrymore
16. The Clown - Jean Shepherd, Charles Mingus
17. The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves - Chamber Jazz Sextet, Kenneth Patchen
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