Jack Kerouac Blues & Haikus Zoot Sims Orig '58 LP WLNM
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Mar 8, 2008 Sold Date
Mar 1, 2008 Start Date
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JACK KEROUAC: BLUES AND HAIKUS (ULTRA RARE BEAT JAZZ LP)Featuring Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, white label promo! Jack Kerouac. Blues And Haikus / Featuring Al Cohn And Zoot Sims. Original 1st Pressing White Label Promo Released in 1959 on Hanover Records HM5006. Side One: American Haikus, Hard Hearted Old Farmer, The Last Hotel / Some Of Dharma. Side Two: Poems From The Unpublished "Book Of Blues". Vinyl in Original Rice Paper Sleeve is Near Mint. Labels are Mint. Jacket is Very Good+ with minor spine wear and a 1 ½” seam split top right. Cleaned on a VPI Record Cleaning Machine. Please Check My Other Auctions For Other Rare, Vintage and Unusual Items including Other Vintage Jazz Records. A little history: In the spring of 1958, just a few weeks after cutting Poetry for the Beat Generation, producer Bob Thiele suggested making a second album -- quite a daring notion, considering that the first album would prove so controversial that it wouldn't reach the public for a year -- and Jack Kerouac agreed. Instead of pianist Steve Allen, however, Kerouac insisted that he be accompanied this time by two good friends, tenor saxmen Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. With Cohn doubling on piano, the resulting Blues and Haikus is a stunning duet between speaker and saxmen, working spontaneously in this peculiar mix of jazz and voice, in which the saxmen do get their solo spots around Kerouac's work. There's much more of a sense on this album of a conscious interaction here between Kerouac and his accompanists, and the album is more arch but also more intense and more imposing than its predecessor.










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