KENNETH PATCHEN READS WITH JAZZ IN CANADA CD AVAILABLE NOW

dear friends -

On CD for the first time since it's initial issue some 40 + years
agolocust music is a lovely, fully remasterd reissue of Kenneth
Patchen's accelerated meet up with the Alan Neil quartet. The CD can
be ordered direct from us at www.locustmusic.com/catalog.html for a
pithy $13 p/p (overseas add 4.50) OR by money order mailed to our
address below (Alternatively, you can pick it up through Amazon and
the usual suspects. This is the first in an ongoing series of Patchen
Spoken Word cds. We hope some of you will join us for the ride!

WORD OF MOUTH - WE'RE CONTENT WITH IT!


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARTIST: Kenneth Patchen
TITLE: Reads with Jazz in Canada
FORMAT: CD
CATALOG NUMBER: locust 60
BARCODE: 656605860121

"Comic, surreal, compassionate, fierce, wild, angry, joyous,
cantankerous, alive, visionary, and divinely human." - george parsons,
dream magazine

"This modern-day minstrel is as fascinating and interesting as any
swing or blues singer…phrases and thoughts so beautifully woven into
the jazz background, and so expertly phrased and timed, that it is a
revelation to the ear and mind." – Los Angeles Examiner

On a single October evening in 1959, fabled people's poet Kenneth
Patchen and Vancouver's Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of
history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and poetry
recordings to disc – fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where
hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchen's scathing,
slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among
the very first truly beat documents on record – preceding efforts by
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. This new edition features original
notes by Alan Neil & new retrospective notes by rock'n'roll poet of
the San Francisco renaissance David Meltzer.



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