From painters' lofts and bohemian haunts in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s to funky clubs and Bowery bars like the Five Spot, jazz musician David Amram retraces in this engaging memoir the creative paths he followed through restless days and long, exhilarating nights with his collaborator and friend Jack Kerouac. With candor and humor, Amram re-creates the moments that shaped a mutually stimulating relationship--like the jazz-poetry reading, the first ever in New York, he performed with Kerouac, whose On the Road had ...
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From painters' lofts and bohemian haunts in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s to funky clubs and Bowery bars like the Five Spot, jazz musician David Amram retraces in this engaging memoir the creative paths he followed through restless days and long, exhilarating nights with his collaborator and friend Jack Kerouac. With candor and humor, Amram re-creates the moments that shaped a mutually stimulating relationship--like the jazz-poetry reading, the first ever in New York, he performed with Kerouac, whose On the Road had recently made him an overnight literary success; or like the 1959 film, Pull My Daisy, they hilariously made with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and Larry Rivers. Amram illuminates the private side of Kerouac, too, his extraordinary intellect and his ardent pursuit of music and literature long after the critics had turned on him and many of his old friends had abandoned him. Among the last of a generation that altered the style and substance of the arts in its time, Amram also celebrates in this at once wise and affecting book the renascence of interest in Kerouac's work three decades after his death. For the beat indeed goes on. And so does the collaboration.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Binding square and tight and contents clean and bright. Remainder mark on top page block. Jacket shows gentle rubbing and is now enclosed in a removable mylar protective sleeve. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. A very nice, gently read copy.
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illustrated. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo More Amram less Kerouac. Very good clean tight copy in lightly chipped repaired good looking jacket. Tiny spot endpaper. Remainder mark heel.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. x + 310 pp, Foreword, numerous titled chapters, epilogue, acknowledgments, index. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked, rear top forecorner board bumped 1/2" x 1/2" wrinkle, else Fine 1/4 black papered 3/4 yellow papered boards in illustrated DJ. DJ with removable mylar protector.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Inscribed by Author on title page. Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & small water damage marks on edges of text block. Small water damage stains near bottom edge of ffep's. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & water damage along bottom edge. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. x, 309pp, index, bw ills. Cloth backed boards in jacket. Red remainder line on top edge otherwise near new. The unique friendship and collaboration of composer-performer David Amram and beat author Jack Kerouac giving an ccount of their adventures from 1956 until Kerouac's death in 1969.
