2-5m-1-S2E44-Jazz and the Beat Writers Part 2

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This is a follow on to episode 44. We go a bit further into the beat poets reading their poetry with live jazz backing. We talk about City Lights and Steve Allen and more.

A couple of Corrections

Howl was first performed by Ginsberg who read a draft of "Howl" at the Six Gallery reading in San Francisco in 1955. Fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, who attended the performance, published the work in 1956. Upon the poem's release, Ferlinghetti and the bookstore's manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and both were arrested. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.

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Al jazzbo Collins records were with Steve Allen you can watch the records revolve and listen to his righteous Spiel here

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