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Be-Bop Spoken Here
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Artist Song Album Label Comments
Kenneth Patchen The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves The Best of the Beat Generation Rhino, 2002 With The Chamber Jazz Sextet; written and read by Kenneth Patchen; recorded 1958.
Charles Mingus Love Chant Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Notorious Bettie Page Lakeshore Records, 2006 Written and performed by Mingus; no date given given for this recording.
Louis Armstrong The Beat Generation Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries and Influences El in Association with Cherry Red Records, 2010 From the film The Beat Generation, recorded 1959.
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra BeBop Spoken Here BeBop Spoken Here (disc 4) Stardust Records, 2007
Eric Dolphy Ode to Charlie Parker Vintage Dolphy (2nd edition) GM Records, 2007 Released 1986; Jaki Byard composition.
Charlie Parker Now's the Time Confirmation: The Best of the Verve Years (disc 2) Polydor (Japan), 1995 Recorded 8/8/1951.
Jack Kerouac Charlie Parker Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries and Influences El in Association with Cherry Red Records, 2010 Jack Kerouac reading; Steve Allen, piano; recorded 1958.
Charlie Parker What Is This Thing Called Love? Confirmation: The Best of the Verve Years (disc 2) Polydor (Japan), 1995 Recorded 3/25/1952.
Edd "Kookie' Byrnes Like, I Love You Cool Daddy-O 60s Beatnik Songs Master Classics Records, 2010
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Lunatic Danza (album version) Simmer, Reduce, Garnish & Serve Warner Brothers, 1995 Previously unreleased; no date given.
Ken Nordine Lavender Colors Asphodel Records, 2000 Recorded in the late 1960s. Nordine was originally commissioned by a paint company to write several commercials about colors. He recorded the spoken word ads backed by free form jazz. The commercials got so much attention, that Nordine decided to record an album where he redid the spots (without mentioning the name of the paint company), adding many more colors.
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Jackie Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries and Influences El in Association with Cherry Red Records, 2010 Annie Ross, vocals; recorded March 1959.
Ornette Coleman Writeman Naked Lunch, Music from the Original Soundtrack Naked Lunch Productions, 1991 Ornette Coleman, composer. Naked Lunch (1959) is a novel by William S. Burroughs. Burroughs, along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, is considered one of the major writers of the post-WW II 'Beat Generation'. Along with Ginsberg's poem 'Howl' (1956) and Kerouac's On the Road (1957), these are probably the three best-known examples of Beat Literature, but there are many more.
Bob Dorough Dog The Best of the Beat Generation Rhino, 2002 The poem is by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and is in his collection of poems, 'A Coney Island of the Mind', New Directions, 1955, 1958, 2008. Tom Waits (among many others) cites the book as a great influence and inspiration. Re-released in a 50th Anniversary Editon, 2008, with a CD of new recordings by Ferlinghetti himself reading the poems.
Bud Powell Tempus Fugit BeBop Spoken Here (disc 4) Stardust Records, 2007
Art Pepper Blues In Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Notorious Bettie Page Lakeshore Records, 2006
Bab's Three Bips and a Bop Oop-Pop-A-Da BeBop Spoken Here (disc 2) Stardust Records, 2007
Al 'Jazzbo' Collins The Discovery of America Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries and Influences El in Association with Cherry Red Records, 2010 Recorded 1953.
Langston Hughes Blues Montage Weary Blues with Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather Polygram, 1990 Music composed in part by Charles Mingus and in part by Leonard Feather; music for this track arranged and conducted by Leonard Feather. Possibly recorded 3/1958, but this is not perfectly clear from the liner notes or the postscript to the liner notes, both by Feather.
Thelonious Monk Blue Monk Midnight Monk Primo, 2006 Recorded in 1954.
Lenny Bruce Psychopathia Sexualis The Best of the Beat Generation Rhino, 2002 Recorded in San Francisco, 1958.
Sun Ra Space Is the Place Soundtrack to the film, 'Space is the Place' Evidence, 1993 Originally released 11/74. 'Space is the Place' is an 82-minute film made in 1972, 1973 and released in 1974. It was written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith, directed by John Coney. The film is a fictionalized treatment of Sun Ra's ideas and philosophy and features himself as well as his Arkestra in the cast. The official website for the movie is http://www.outerspacewaysinc.com/index.htm
Fred Gwynne (as Herman Munster) Herman Munster reads Cool Daddy-O 60s Beatnik Songs Master Classics Records, 2010
Junko Onishi Stardust Baroque Verve, 2010 Japanese jazz pianist, playing post-bop jazz. The long unaccompanied piano solo part of 'The Threepenny Opera' (on the Baroque CD), is based on a musical score by Jaki Byard, which was left to the personal care of Ms. Onishi. Jaki was the favorite pianist of Charles Mingus and was also Ms. Onishi's mentor.
John Cale Moon (album version) Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac Rykodisc, 1997 Kerouac poem, from 'Pomes All Sizes'; performed by John Cale; voice and keyboards, John Cale; recording engineered and mixed by John Cale at his recording studio in Greenwhich Village, NYC.
Charles Mingus The Chill of Death Let My Children Hear Music Columbia/Sony, 1992, 1972 Mingus has said that he wrote this particular piece in 1939, but it wasn't recorded until almost 30 years later. The composition includes the Edgar Allen Poe-ish poem that equates Death with a Beautiful Woman. That's Mingus himself reciting it in this particular recording. According to George Kanzler's liner notes for the album, '[Charles] McPherson's alto solo, over the same orchestral backing as the poem, was inspired by Charlie Parker, when, as Mingus recounts, Parker called him up on the phone and began soloing over a recording of Stravinsky's 'Firebird'.
Warren Zevon Running Through Chinese Poem Song Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac Rykodisc, 1997 Kerouac poem, from 'Pomes All Sizes'; performed by Warren Zevon (voice) and Michael Wolff (piano).
Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie St. James Infirmary The Gifted Ones (remastered) Fantasy, Inc., 1979 Originally released 2/77.