Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac

by Amram,David

• ISBN13: 9781594515446
• ISBN10: 1594515441
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

David Amram has been described as 'œthe Renaissance man of American Music.' His musical career has spanned participating with Jack Kerouac in the original jazz-poetry reading in 1957 in Greenwich Village to being honored as the first Composer-in-Residence for the New York Philharmonic and to playing in Farm Aid concerts. He's performed with an incredible variety of musical greats, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Willie Nelson, and and Tito Puente, and he continues to compose and tour nationally. Now available in paperback, following the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's classic On The Road, Offbeatis the rollicking story of this legendary musician and his adventures with his close friend Jack Kerouac. Amram and Kerouac shared a relationship based on creativity, respect, and fun, and Offbeatoffers the reader a full share of each. This wonderful memoir takes the reader from the coffee houses of New York to the San Francisco Opera House and into the making of the now-classic film Pull My Daisy. Offbeatis Amram's energetic and heartfelt account of Kerouac and the creative community of artists'”including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Langston Hughes, and Neal and Carolyn Cassady'”that courageously explored their creative potential and, in doing so, changed American culture forever.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Children of the American Bop Night	p. 3
A Night of Poetry on the Bowery	p. 23
A Brief University of Hang-out-ology Field Trip	p. 40
Spontaneous Commotion: The Making of Pull My Daisy	p. 48
Sojourn with Dody Muller	p. 85
The Sixties	p. 100
Copying My Kadish with Kerouac	p. 103
Composing "A Year in Our Land": Words and Music	p. 109
San Francisco Reunion	p. 122
Expression of Faith	p. 148
Requiem: Jack's Final Days	p. 155
In Memory of Jack Kerouac	p. 169
Book One Afterword	p. 173
Keeping the Flame Alive	p. 177
Jack Goes to the Kennedy Center	p. 182
Back with Jack: The 1998 On the Road Recordings	p. 186
The Orlando Connection: The House That Jack Built	p. 206
A Down-Home Louisville Insomniacathon	p. 220
Jack in Northport: Off the Beaten Path	p. 236
New Millennium Blues: New Vistas, Final Thoughts, and Fond Farewells	p. 245
Epilogue: Now's the Time	p. 286
Photo Section	p. 320
Index	p. 329
About the Author	p. 335
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