"To Be or Not to Bop..or Like the Children of Jazz, Swing!" ~S. Pierre/ On the Road With Jazz
"Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him
the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime.
Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it
had in waves of power and logic and subtlety-leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile
and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 3, Ch. 10
Sounds of the Beat generation: An epic 25-track playlist of jazz music from ‘On The Road’
Jack Kerouac’s On The Road is inextricably entwined with the distinctive qualities of jazz: its prose is an undisturbed torrent, free-flowing and almost entirely devoid of form, but passionate and fiery, and as legend has it, written in its entirety during a three-week bender.
“In Los Angeles, Kerouac describes ‘the wild humming night of Central Avenue - the night of Hamp’s (that’s swing-band leader Lionel Hampton’s) ‘Central Avenue Breakdown’ - howled and boomed … they were singing in the halls, singing from their windows, just hell and be damned and look out.'”
While the mayor Nero of Portland is happily playing the violins (violence) while burning the city down with BLM and ANTIFA..
All Resistance & Solidarity events near Portland : https://everout.com/portland-mercury/events/?category=resistance-solidarity
Portland's Best Music Stores : Mississippi Records (5202 N Albina) one of the city’s foundational record stores
https://www.portlandmercury.com/portland-handbook-2019/2019/09/12/27128621/music-to-your-ears-a-guide-to-portlands-best-record-stores
dr. π (pi)
♫
enjoy!
❤️
the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime.
Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it
had in waves of power and logic and subtlety-leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile
and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 3, Ch. 10
Sounds of the Beat generation: An epic 25-track playlist of jazz music from ‘On The Road’
Click to viewJack Kerouac’s On The Road is inextricably entwined with the distinctive qualities of jazz: its prose is an undisturbed torrent, free-flowing and almost entirely devoid of form, but passionate and fiery, and as legend has it, written in its entirety during a three-week bender.
“In Los Angeles, Kerouac describes ‘the wild humming night of Central Avenue - the night of Hamp’s (that’s swing-band leader Lionel Hampton’s) ‘Central Avenue Breakdown’ - howled and boomed … they were singing in the halls, singing from their windows, just hell and be damned and look out.'”
While the mayor Nero of Portland is happily playing the violins (violence) while burning the city down with BLM and ANTIFA..
All Resistance & Solidarity events near Portland : https://everout.com/portland-mercury/events/?category=resistance-solidarity
Portland's Best Music Stores : Mississippi Records (5202 N Albina) one of the city’s foundational record stores
https://www.portlandmercury.com/portland-handbook-2019/2019/09/12/27128621/music-to-your-ears-a-guide-to-portlands-best-record-stores
dr. π (pi)
♫
enjoy!
❤️