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Article: Arts: To Be-bop or not to be? On The Road, the album, finds Jack Kerouac flexing his vocal muscles, too.
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 16, 1999
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That Jack Kerouac could make a typewriter swing, rattling the
Remington with staccato bop rhythms as he punched out the endless
teletype- roll manuscript of On The Road, is an essential part of
Beat legend. That he could also sing like Louis Prima - or at least
tried to - is less well known, and perhaps should remain so. However,
the discovery of previously lost acetate and tape recordings in the
Kerouac archives, and their release on a new CD as Jack Kerouac Reads
On The Road, means that "Beat" scholars can now groove to Jack's
vocal inventions, whether the author would have wanted them to or
not.
Inspired by the metrically adventurous bop he had heard Charlie
Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ...
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