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1959 studio album by Jack Kerouac
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Blues and Haikus is the
American
novelist and
poet
Jack Kerouac 's second album and was released in 1959.
History
On the album, Kerouac's poetry readings are accompanied by
jazz
saxophonists
Al Cohn and
Zoot Sims . The album is included in the CD
box set The Jack Kerouac Collection .
Track listing
Side One
"American Haikus" – 10:01
"Hard Hearted Old Farmer" – 2:13
"The Last Hotel/Some of the Dharma" – 3:49
Side Two
"Poems from the Unpublished Book of Blues " – 14:05
Bonus Tracks on 1990 CD issue
(
Outtakes from the Blues and Haikus recording sessions)
"Old Western Movies" - 6:42
"Conclusion of the Railroad Earth" - 10:05
References
Fiction Poetry Plays Other books Audio Related
Films Writings Audio People Other
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader
The Brothers (and
Stan Getz , 1949–52)
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
Tonite's Music Today (and
Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)
Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
Zoot! (1956)
Locking Horns (and
Joe Newman , 1957)
Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn,
Phil Woods , 1959)
Down Home (1960)
Two Jims and Zoot /Otra Vez (
Jimmy Raney and
Jim Hall , 1964)
Inter-Action (and
Sonny Stitt , 1965)
Waiting Game (1966)
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
Nirvana (and
Bucky Pizzarelli ,
Buddy Rich , 1974)
Basie & Zoot (and
Count Basie , 1975)
The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and
Joe Pass ,
Oscar Peterson , 1975)
Soprano Sax (1976)
Hawthorne Nights (1976)
If I'm Lucky (and
Jimmy Rowles , 1977)
For Lady Day (1978)
Warm Tenor (and
Jimmy Rowles , 1979)
The Sweetest Sounds (and
Rune Gustafsson , 1979)
Just Friends (and
Harry Edison , 1980)
Art 'n' Zoot (and
Art Pepper , 1981)
Recordings with
Al Cohn
From A to...Z (1956)
The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
Tenor Conclave (and
Hank Mobley ,
John Coltrane , 1957)
The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and
Herbie Steward ,
Serge Chaloff , 1957)
Al and Zoot (1957)
Blues and Haikus (
Jack Kerouac , 1959)
SteveIreneo! (and
Irene Kral ,
Steve Allen , 1959)
Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
You 'n' Me (1960)
Either Way (1961)
Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
Body and Soul (1973)
Motoring Along (1974)
With
Quincy Jones With
Gerry Mulligan With others
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
Encounter! (
Pepper Adams , 1968)
Trigger Happy! /East Coast Sounds (
Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn,
Tony Scott , 1956)
Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
The Bosses (Count Basie and
"Big Joe" Turner , 1973)
Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
Jazz Is Universal (
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)
Chris Connor (1956)
The Book Cooks (
Booker Ervin , 1960)
Loose Blues (
Bill Evans , 1962)
The Aztec Suite (
Art Farmer , 1959)
South American Cookin' (
Curtis Fuller , 1961)
Creole Cookin' (
Bobby Hackett , 1967)
The Hawk in Hi Fi (
Coleman Hawkins , 1956)
Portraits on Standards (
Stan Kenton , 1953)
The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
Profiles (
Gary McFarland , 1966)
Something to Swing About (
Carmen McRae , 1959)
Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
The Complete Town Hall Concert (
Charles Mingus , 1962)
Arranged by Montrose (
Jack Montrose , 1954)
Encyclopedia of Jazz (
Oliver Nelson , 1966)
The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
All the Sad Young Men (
Anita O'Day , 1962)
Transition (Buddy Rich,
Lionel Hampton , 1974)
Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
Samba Para Dos (
Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
Moonlight in Vermont (
Johnny Smith , 1952)
Phoebe Snow (1974)
Broadway Soul (
Sonny Stitt , 1965)
Vaughan and Violins (
Sarah Vaughan , 1958)
The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
At Newport '63 (
Joe Williams , 1963)