Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac - Couverture souple

Amram, D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1560254602 ISBN 13 : 9781560254607

Editeur : Avalon Travel Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Now in a paperback edition, David Amram retraces in this engaging memoir the creative paths he followed through restless days and long, exhilarating nights with his collaborator and friend Jack Kerouac. With candor and humor, Amram illuminates the private side of Kerouac, his extraordinary intellect and his ardent pursuit of music and literature. Among the last of a generation that altered the style and substance of the arts in its time, Amram also celebrates in this wise and affecting book the renaissance of interest in Kerouac's work three decades after his death. Photographs are included. "[A] compassionate, firsthand portrait. "Eric P. Nash, The New York Times Book Review "...every bit as radiant as his enduringly popular first memoir, Vibrations. "Donna Seaman, Booklist "[A]n unpretentious, freewheeling festival of highly diverting tales. "Kirkus Reviews "[Offbeat] is most valuable for its narrative of the ongoing restoration of Kerouac's literary reputation. "Paul A. Bergin, St. Petersburg Times

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

David Amram has been described as "the 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, Offbeat is 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 Offbeat offers 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. Offbeat is 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1560254602
• ISBN 13: 9781560254607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible