Jazz Music For a New Beat Generation
The only people for me are the mad ones. Mad to live, mad to move, mad to be saved - with minds like book stacks and hearts like kick drums. No wristwatches, they measure time with high hats and squint like cowboys from the cigarette smoke. Skinny girls and boys with sly minds, their souls on skid row. They burn, burn, burn, like a dying star. They’re beat, beat-up, beat down, another beat generation.
Track List
Branford Marsalis - Scenes In the City
Donald Byrd - Slow Drag
Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments
Stanley Turrentine - Since I Fell For You
Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana
Don Rendell, Ian Carr - Blue Mosque
Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta
Les McCann - Before I Rest
Alice Coltrane - Sivaya
Pharaoh Sanders - Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt
Yusef Lateef feat Charlie Parker - Blue Rocky
Jack Kerouac - Charlie Parker
John Coltrane - I’m Old Fashioned
E.S.T. - Believe, Beleft, Below
Charles Mingus - Self-Portrait in Three Colors
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Miles Davis & John Lee Hooker - Harry and Dolly
The Thomasz Stanko Quartet - Soul of Things (Variation 1)
Chet Baker - Someone In Love
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood
Art Tatum & Ben Webster - My Ideal
Ella Fitzgerald - Someone To Watch Over Me
Harry James - You Made Me Love You
Mantovani - I Wish You Love
Don Morrow - A Little Night Music
Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (Live at the Sands)
An Unofficial Guide to the Beat Generation
As a bonus for those who want to dig deeper into the written works and the cultural impact of the aforementioned Beat Generation, the following is a sort of audio documentary featuring poetry, news footage, and music about and by those representing the movement, including selections of On The Road read by Jack Kerouac and Naked Lunch read by William S Burroughs, plus a recital of Howl by Alan Ginsberg. It’s a love letter to an era when coffee shop culture was about more than just a beverage, so grab a shovel and dig it.
Track List
Jack Kerouac - The Beat Generation
Howard Smith - The Cool Rebellion Documentary Intro
Bob McFadden & Dor - The Beat Generation
Lionel Hampton - Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
CBS News Report - Hipsters vs. Squares
Patsy Ray - Beatnik’s Wish
Beatnik Interview - Strictly Squaresville
Alan Ginsberg - Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London
Charles Kuralt Reports - The Greenwich Village Poets
Roy Eldridge - The Gasser
Jack Kerouac - On the Road(Excerpt)
Cool Rebellion Interview on Individualism
Ken Nordine - Reaching Into In
Alan Ginsberg - Howl
King Pleasure - Parker’s Mood
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch (Excerpt)
Charlie Ventura - Ha!
Howard Smith - The Cool Rebellion Closing
