Blues and Haikus

1959 studio album by Jack Kerouac

Blues and Haikus

Studio album by

Jack Kerouac

Released

1959

Recorded

1958

Genre

Spoken word

Length

47:08

Label

Hanover-Signature Record Corporation LP #5006

Producer

Bob Thiele

Jack Kerouac chronology

Poetry for the Beat Generation
(1959)

Blues and Haikus
(1959)

Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation
(1960)

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Blues and Haikus is the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's second album and was released in 1959.

History

On the album, Kerouac's poetry readings are accompanied by jazz saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. The album is included in the CD box set The Jack Kerouac Collection.

Track listing

Side One

"American Haikus" – 10:01
"Hard Hearted Old Farmer" – 2:13
"The Last Hotel/Some of the Dharma" – 3:49

Side Two

"Poems from the Unpublished Book of Blues" – 14:05

Bonus Tracks on 1990 CD issue

(Outtakes from the Blues and Haikus recording sessions)

"Old Western Movies" - 6:42
"Conclusion of the Railroad Earth" - 10:05

References

^ Eder, Bruce. Blues and Haikus at AllMusic

Jack Kerouac

Bibliography

Fiction

The Sea Is My Brother (1942)
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945/2008; with William S. Burroughs)
The Town and the City (1950)
On the Road (1957)
The Subterraneans (1958)
The Dharma Bums (1958)
Doctor Sax (1959)
Maggie Cassidy (1959)
Book of Dreams (1960)
Tristessa (1960)
Visions of Cody (1960)
Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Big Sur (1962)
Visions of Gerard (1963)
Desolation Angels (1965)
Satori in Paris (1966)
Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
Pic (1971)
Orpheus Emerged (2002)

Poetry

Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
Mexico City Blues (1959)
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960)
Scattered Poems (1971)
Old Angel Midnight (1973)
Book of Haikus (2003)
Book of Sketches (2006)

Plays

Beat Generation (2005)

Other books

Atop an Underwood (1991)
Good Blonde & Others (1993)

Audio

Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959)
Blues and Haikus (1960)
Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960)
The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990)
Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997)
Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)

Films	Pull My Daisy (1959) The Subterraneans (1960) Heart Beat (1980) Howl (2010) Love Always, Carolyn (2011) On The Road (2012) Big Sur (2013) Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Writings	Moody Street Irregulars (1978–1992) Minor Characters (1987) Off the Road (1990) Door Wide Open (2002) You'll be Okay (2007)
Audio	One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009)
People	Jan Kerouac (daughter) Edie Parker (first wife) Neal Cassady Allen Ginsberg Gregory Corso William S. Burroughs Lucien Carr Joyce Johnson Carolyn Cassady Alene Lee Gary Snyder
Other	Beat Generation Beatnik Jack Kerouac School Jack Kerouac Alley Kerouac, Then and Now

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
Recordings with Al Cohn	From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974)
With Quincy Jones	This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956) The Birth of a Band! (1959) Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
With Gerry Mulligan	California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
With others	Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968) Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)