ビート作家、ジャック・ケルアックが小説『ドクター・サックス』の出版に先立ち1959年に録音した3作目にして最後のアルバム。
自分の声を楽器のように使い、ホーン奏者が有名なスタンダードの変化をソロで演奏するように、パターンやパーカッシブなアクセントの中に自分の言葉を織り込んでいる。このセットは、40分間聴く者を飽きさせないよう、絶大な集中力とエネルギーで表現されている。
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〈パーソネル〉 Jack Kerouac(voice)
発売・販売元 提供資料(2024/10/21)
Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation was the culmination of the author's short-lived recording career, a solo performance that transcends poetry and music -- it's literally spoken jazz, the artist improvising freely on the printed text of his own work in front of him. Produced by Bill Randle, it was Kerouac's most musical performance, despite the fact that the recording contained only his voice and no accompaniment, using his voice and language the way a saxophonist might improvise on a particular melodic line or riff. He's spellbinding throughout, intense, focused, and even subtly changing voices with the work itself. [Reissued in Rhino's Jack Kerouac Collection with a bonus track consisting of an excerpt from a 1958 forum on the existence of the "Beat Generation," held at Hunter College in New York.] ~ Bruce Eder
Rovi