Jack Kerouac and Jazz: “I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday”

Keith Shadwick
Monday, November 15, 2021

Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' did for literature what Charlie Parker and John Coltrane did for jazz, whipping it up into brave new shapes and forms that challenged the norm and set a generation in motion, writes Keith Shadwick

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