Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats Soundtrack (

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Kerouac, the Movie

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Jack Kerouac was a Beat Generation writer who took the nation by storm upon the publication of his novel On the Road. Kerouac's legacy and influence are explained via interviews with Kerouac's friends and contemporaries such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Edie Parker. Narrator Peter Coyote reads sections of Kerouac's (mostly autobiographical) books as an actor recreates scenes from Kerouac's life.

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Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
I Wonder Who
Zoot Sims: Writer
Percussion Discussion
Charles Mingus: Writer
Charles Mingus: Performer
Honeysuckle Rose
Fats Waller: Performer
Joe Sullivan: Performer
What's New
I've Got the World On a String
Dreams
So Long Eric
Charles Mingus: Writer
"Jumpin' Pumpkins
Duke Ellington: Writer
Blue Haze
Miles Davis: Writer
Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk: Writer
Creole Love Call
Duke Ellington: Writer
Velvet Scene
John Coltrane: Performer
Mal Waldron: Writer
Blues For Norman
Cattin'
John Coltrane: Performer
Mal Waldron: Writer
Lakota Rabbit Song