Cargo Records

Reads with Jazz in Canada

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.

Track Listing

1 Four Blues Poems 5:42
2 Four Song Poems 6:56
3 As I Opened the Window 3:59
4 Glory, Glory 10:36