Reads with Jazz in Canada

In this 1959 release, novelist and poet Kenneth Patchen reads original poetry while the Alan Neil Quartet plays jazz standards in the background. The performance was recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s studio in Vancouver, Canada, and broadcast later that year. Patchen and the Alan Neil Quartet also gave a live performance of this material in The Cellar, a Vancouver nightclub. The liner notes contain an essay by Alan Neil about the recording session, which turned out to be challenging in some unexpected ways.

Track Listing

101	There’s a Place / They Won’t Let You in There / A Sigh Is Little Altered / The Lonesome Boy Blues	Kenneth Patchen with The Alan Neil Quartet	05:38
102	The Everlasting Contenders / Do I Not Deal with the Angels / The Sea Is Awash with Roses / Not Many Kingdoms Left	Kenneth Patchen with The Alan Neil Quartet	06:51
201	As I Opened the Window	Kenneth Patchen with The Alan Neil Quartet	03:55
202	Glory, Glory / Speeches from Don't Look Now	Kenneth Patchen with The Alan Neil Quartet	10:40