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01. October In The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 02. Deadbelly - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 03. Charlie Parker - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 04. The Sounds Of The Universe Coming In My Window - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 05. One Mother - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 06. Goofing At The Table - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 07. Bowery Blues - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 08. Abraham - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen 09. 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

01. American Haikus - Jack Kerouac 02. Hard Hearted Old Farmer - Jack Kerouac 03. The Last Hotel & Some Of Dharma - Jack Kerouac 04. Poems From The Unpublished 'Book Of Blues' - Jack Kerouac 05. Old Western Movies - Jack Kerouac 06. Colclusion Of The Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac

01. The Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac 02. Poems (Fragments): San Francisco/Street Scene/Money Honey/Westinghouse Elevators/Old Age... - Jack Kerouac 03. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds Of The Universe In My Window, Pt. 1 - Jack Kerouac 04. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds Of The Universe In My Window, Pt. II - Jack Kerouac 05. Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop - Jack Kerouac 06. Excerpts From 'The Subterraneans' - Jack Kerouac 07. Visions Of Neal: Neal And The Three Stooges, Pt. I - Jack Kerouac 08. Visions Of Neal: Neal And The Three Stooges, Pt.II - Jack Kerouac 09. Is There A Beat Generation? - Jack Kerouac

This triple-disc box set is centered on the reissue and restoration of Jack Kerouac's three long-players: Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959), Blues and Haikus (1959), as well as Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation(1960). The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) also adds over a half-hour of previously unissued material. These include outtakes from the Blues and Haikus sessions, recitations from On the Road and Visions of Cody from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show, as well as a candid recording from a symposium titled "Is There a Beat Generation," which was held at the Hunter College Playhouse and sponsored by Brandeis University. As a poet, Kerouac's readings were rarely as entertaining as those of his contemporaries William S. Burroughs or Allen Ginsberg. However, the liberation in his writing style is absolutely replete with a youthful joy tethered by somber optimism. His blend of achingly poetic verbiage and stream of consciousness were intersected by his rapier wit and perpetual vision. Much like the instrumental jazz musicians of his time, his poetry and prose were wide open to interpretation and the delivery often bears a crude and uncomfortable nature -- much like the uncertainty that faces many of the characters he animates. Accompanying Kerouac on his spoken-word jazz odysseys are Steve Allen (piano) on Poetry for the Beat Generation as well as Zoot Sims (tenor sax) and Al Cohn (tenor sax) on Blues and Haikus. The Jack Kerouac Collection also includes a 32-page liner-notes booklet with essays and commentary from Ginsberg, Burroughs, Jerry Garcia, Ray Manzarek, David Perry, and Steve Allen, among others. There is also copious discographical, biographical, and bibliographical information as well. This set is an essential piece of Americana and is highly recommended for literary buffs and beatniks alike.

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Pull My Daisy Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show Wholly Communion Jack Kerouac on Firing Line Allen Ginsberg - "Hum Bom"

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Pull My Daisy Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show Wholly Communion Jack Kerouac on Firing Line Allen Ginsberg - "Hum Bom"

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Music from "on the road" with Jack Kerouac reading his poetry and the soundscape his hometown Lowell, Massachusetts. Music from Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Waits, Slim Gaillard, Willie Nelson, and Morphine ensure that The Beats go on!

Aired:August 11th, 1999

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