Jack Kerouac reading " American Haiku " a number of original Haiku read to some jazz riffs- From my blog Gord's Notebook at gordsnotebook.blogspot.ca & my website gordscafe at gordscafe.tripo...
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@HectorsDolphin19772 жыл бұрын
“Well here I am/ 2 p.m./ What day is it?” - best ever.
@begily14 жыл бұрын
this guy is so cool, he has one the best voice I've ever heard.
@Thylacine194913 жыл бұрын
The nineteen-fifties: Jack Kerouac set the scene, And the beat goes on.
@MotherGaeia5 жыл бұрын
"All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head" :) Popular one!! :)
@ZechsMerquise7311 жыл бұрын
Also, its the way feelings are expressed that makes it a haiku. This sentence isn't a haiku just because it has fourteen syllables. Haiku must impart feeling beyond the scope of the words it uses. It must paint a picture, and not simply tell you a phrase. Haiku is the definition of poem, not the strict use of a fixed number of syllables across three lines.
@timneave32405 жыл бұрын
I was going to say that! So I'll just add my agreement. That 17 syllable "rule" has led to so much misunderstanding.
@ChrisJohnson-ld3wq2 жыл бұрын
@@timneave3240 it's seventeen syllables.. but yeah.. it's also difficult to transpose the 17 character rule from japanese into a western setting..
@frostychickenprods11 жыл бұрын
five syllables here seven syllables go here and five again here.
@JackBrummet10 жыл бұрын
Does anyone ever mention that the saxophonists are the great tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims?
@leadfeet3110 жыл бұрын
Every time I listen to this, I can't help but to think of Jack sitting there, having a good time w/Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, fully expecting to hang out w/them after the session, only to be left painfully alone once the music was all said and done.
@steviegaga2 жыл бұрын
Thanks SO much for uploading. Priceless stuff with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.
@panovideo13 жыл бұрын
Two American writers saved me from madness: Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac.
@AndresFigari2 жыл бұрын
OMG totally, me too!
@StephenDedalus74 Жыл бұрын
In a way, Miller is a smiling monk and Kerouac is a cool saint :)
@johnnyjr62929 жыл бұрын
Jack, Al & Zoot sending us a musical hiku through the decades.
@JohnnyMeyerdotcom16 жыл бұрын
My favorite Jack album ! He was the best ... RIP Jack K.
@TheKickasskatie12 жыл бұрын
there is something so wonderful, soothing, yet playful about jack's poetry. i never get tired of hearing his voice
@irishelk35 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Jack. Such a shame that so many of the great people have died, so much more to give.
@deepfried1310 жыл бұрын
Drunk as a Hoot Owl, writing letters by thunderstorm
@verbaud13 жыл бұрын
Ahhh Jack....he sent me a haiku on a cold drunken night one night: 'Pissing under a November full moon, steam'. No rules, just simplicity.
@PoetryETrain11 жыл бұрын
Thank you much... Added to a playlist...
@ZechsMerquise7311 жыл бұрын
Kerouac is such a great inspiration for writing haiku. What he wrote may have been experimental, but it lays the groundwork for good haiku. Most English haiku are just plain bad, only as good as the silly ones on this comment page. Sticking to a 5-7-5 form is very stifling to English. But so much can be said with the conservative use of 11-17 syllables.
@josephknight91212 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the correction Stephen. I really appreciate its.
@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr10 жыл бұрын
Love Jack
@firearms-explosives6 жыл бұрын
Maybe one of his best.." One Friday when we were all dead, he said I didn't think it would be so good."
@noahfranks9842 жыл бұрын
I need to put this on loop somehow
@designermite14 жыл бұрын
The bottoms of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
@sunshinysue5 жыл бұрын
The tree looks like a dog Barking at heaven 💜
@coldcarlsberg15 жыл бұрын
I am leaving.. the video is streaming.. what a cat.
@ZechsMerquise7312 жыл бұрын
"Black bird... NO!!!! BLUE BIRD" He just about gave me a heart attack.
@terapan17426 жыл бұрын
Beautiful aint it? ...Don't you hate when public school teachers try to do the same with elevating the level of their voice but it just misses the mark.
@NicholasKlacsanzkyICM Жыл бұрын
I love that Kerouac made haiku his own, as expected :)
@johnnychaos9118512 жыл бұрын
you are a legend so says ceaser five hundred I also agree
@LeBretto11 жыл бұрын
Jack Kerouac never stopped carried by wind
@MrJamesrnolan14 жыл бұрын
Jack slings the word-juice Jazzes 'em like noone else- No substitutes please!
@murrayfrederick7516 жыл бұрын
Too cool Jack...
@iCE2sKY16 жыл бұрын
Inspiring!
@walmarcus11 жыл бұрын
Thirty 3 years of finding Jack. Still lost, but on a wall seen daily. Sampas, Rexroth, Corso, Cassidy, Allen and Bill are still about, with him. Don't get arrested for decay. Chin, chin Ti Jean. 'Tales of Beatnik Glory' was not for Jack!
@lotofagiaverboycarne7 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL
@perguto11 жыл бұрын
These Comments are The best a KZbin video Has ever had
@anukasia16 жыл бұрын
I love it!
@xvillin11 жыл бұрын
I like the "library steps girls in shorts" one, and the sax fluttering at the end...jiggly butt sound.
@rickmisterly35845 жыл бұрын
These are great visions But for the haiku purist Missing a third line
@ridgewellhawkes12815 жыл бұрын
The third line is the music!
@leadfeet3110 жыл бұрын
I just noticed for the first time how you can really hear his voice echo back, 'your light's on', there at the end (and what a shame to cut it off like that, kind of ruined this little moment for me).
@MrTerminal3213 жыл бұрын
Black bird NOOOOOOOOOO Blue bird! Haha, great stuff know one will ever get.
@Lia220913 жыл бұрын
brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TylerMontana12 жыл бұрын
I do, I don't doesn't matter. :)
@Alejandro_875 жыл бұрын
7:43 i giggled and then i heard THIS giggle!!!
@KaiWatson10 жыл бұрын
I died of old age when I was 17. The still have yet to fax my papers over.
@dububro11 жыл бұрын
Haiku is plural since Japanese does not have any plural form
@Kerouac4fan15 жыл бұрын
It helped that he looked like a Hollywood actor. If he'd have looked like Charles Laughton would anybody have listened to him? Actually Charles Laughton does a great reading of Kerouac, Google: 'Dharma beat Charles Laughton' and you'll hear it. All best - Al of Yahoo! Group: Beat_Happening.
@ceaser50012 жыл бұрын
you are a legend
@alinytch16 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, Chief of the BEAT !
@missellendiane8 жыл бұрын
happy birthday Jack RIP
@j4unumber111 жыл бұрын
Beautiful writing Jack Kerouac is the best A gift to us all
@duelatdawn13 жыл бұрын
You wrote a haiku On youtube- Congratulations.
@Alejandro_875 жыл бұрын
Big jack a lack a doodle say hey! Yoy never know what he may say, if it wasnt planned, then he would be damned. But the stars and the moons are all buffoons, if anything then everything, may the gods bless the masses.
@CadillacDeBergerac11 жыл бұрын
I get Kerouac Comparisons and keep a Haiku diary Check out my channel and click my Tumblr link to check it out if you'd like. Digging all these haikus!
@jikolawrence114 жыл бұрын
THX -- love Jacks haiku
@rollyhe11 жыл бұрын
happy birthday jack you will not be forgotten black bird NO BLUE BIRD
@alexanderguderian14 жыл бұрын
@JoelMonroe ha, awesome
@axiomist44882 жыл бұрын
Well, here I am, 2 pm. What day is it ? That's me, retired, with no sense of structure . All the days the same .
@Seamus61614 жыл бұрын
@JoelMonroe fact... sure basho and buson often ignored it.. and many modern Japanese haikuists dont use it too
@lenny12114 жыл бұрын
1:11 listing to the cats stepping !
@begily14 жыл бұрын
I love haiku
@ricke9114 жыл бұрын
Is this available on a record? Great stuff, would like to dig more of this
@dmarries115 жыл бұрын
the sink above me frightens me............it really dose
@williamjancha28122 жыл бұрын
A reminder to be AWARE, and enjoy the little little idiosyncrasies of LIFE. 😀
@BUKCOLLECTOR2 жыл бұрын
my 50s cookie-cutter house among hundreds. . . . I call my neighbor and he helped me find it!
@sohooded13 жыл бұрын
@anthraxman whiskers cannot whisk, they judge the distance on sides, framing the face so.
@sohooded13 жыл бұрын
@anthraxman Whiskers cannot whisk; judging distance on the sides; they frame the face so
@shovingwords13 жыл бұрын
@anthraxman that made me laugh, man. excellent! Xx
@giantflyingturtles8 жыл бұрын
big jack!
@Vampira243013 жыл бұрын
Cool man!
@desolatemetropolis13 жыл бұрын
A little worm Lowers itself from the roof By a self-shat thread. LOL
@vitobarzuk49839 жыл бұрын
this is good!
@marciagoldberg87779 жыл бұрын
Wash hung out late night in may (that gives us seven of the fifteen syllables I counted). This bad boy did pick dandelions and break them as he would.
@Weliveaswedreamalone13 жыл бұрын
@mandolaman12 Finally somebody who has something intelligent to say. The occidental adaptation of Haiku as a poetry form doesn't makes really sense. Octavio Paz committed a lot of mistakes when he tried to adapt the form. At first: a mora, or a character is not a syllable, so is very stupid pretend to write a Haiku with a 5-7-5 form. Besides, Haiku is not just pure metric, has a cultural and historical ground back that justified it.
@firearms-explosives6 жыл бұрын
Marcel Jaentschke so does the English language that you so carelessly scattered like so many turds in your comment. But since you don't know the language just trust me ,the man was a great writer 👍.
@poetnine16 жыл бұрын
Night time thunder fades, and large drops fall from trees, Lee reaches for me...
@user-ht4gb2fw4e14 жыл бұрын
haiku's. they come they go. it's hard to come up with one.
@efilperpenfuhrer8 жыл бұрын
In the pic, Jack Holds His Kitty the Same Way I Do. hoho!
@barryw26594 жыл бұрын
Imo the poetry sucks but it is the image that gets me. Picturing a smoke-filled dark coffee shop in the 50s with abstract paintings on the walls and beautiful interesting women sitting around the tables..the bomb was on people's minds, Soviet Union, Ike. There was possible doom and limitless possibilities all at the same time.
@aeropilot44193 жыл бұрын
Interesting ... what you describe as a scene in your head, that scene was no doubt true on some level, but it is also a stereotypical image, a beat archetype that exists in the collective unconscious as told to us, looking back, by movies and magazine articles that sought to romanticize and capitalize on the coffeehouse phenomena. I like the poetry ... it’s a spoken-word art form not unlike hip hop today. 🙂
@barryw26593 жыл бұрын
@@aeropilot4419 Well, more than just in my head. I'm old enough to remember those days, and have met and heard Ginsberg and Orlovsky recite poetry and know friends of theirs who are written in some of the books of the time (e.g. Neal Cassady's family and Bob Dylan's friends from his Greenich Village days). If ever in San Francisco you might want to check out the Beat Museum in North Beach. I like Beat poetry also and don't care for Gangsta Rap. Just not crazy about this one :)
@GTFOPoetry4 жыл бұрын
Right or wrong A Moral compass Heartstrings pull
@valenciasanchez19315 жыл бұрын
so different.
@MonkeyOnTheContrary13 жыл бұрын
@ashiestone laughing my ass off - not literally though mildly humourous in fact, but worth a lol
@broodyart13 жыл бұрын
Gravity...slowly pulls our attractions...down,slowly.. to our knees. Skooobity bop doo freeeda ba doooooooooo
@jbradford2515 жыл бұрын
Actually it's 2 tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.
@aarontimberlake14 жыл бұрын
@IHateBarnett I just don't understand why "some" people try to complicate simple things (i.e. Haikus)
@ZechsMerquise7312 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia your mother wears combat boots; drunk. Water wastes you
@mandolaman1211 жыл бұрын
You guys gotta get that moras are not syllables... that's what Kerouac realised & wrote against -- can't mimic the mora rule in the English language, but certainly shouldn't use syllables as a replacement
@lakshmimittal15 жыл бұрын
The fridge light is off But the food is still in there
@catgumart13 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know How to write a good haiku I cant think of one
@Diogenes136013 жыл бұрын
(to) senior out (verb): To tire, become too weak to function. To do it like an oldster. "I couldn't make the late movie. I seniored out, went to bed at ten."
@idic513 жыл бұрын
castle of ~gundavers - what is that ? I think I messed up the word.
@Humph17714 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry if I upset anyone. Wasn't in the best of places when I wrote that, and I intend to remove it now. I duly note my own ignorance, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Hope this finds you well, Humphrey
@jordanschunk15 жыл бұрын
2:03 'mexicooooooh' ya man ya
@robchalfen14 жыл бұрын
Al Cohn on tenor!
@baltasvilkas16 жыл бұрын
big cat, little cat-- sheer cool...
@randomkeir6 жыл бұрын
What is he saying in this haiku? Everyone here loves it, but what is he talking about? Do you love it because he's Kerouac or do you love its meaning?
@firearms-explosives6 жыл бұрын
randomkeir it is actually a number of poems. How can you distinguish between the man and his writing?
@Alejandro_875 жыл бұрын
Both
@ThePaulHealy12 жыл бұрын
coiled breath strained beating at the throats door someone screams.
@owlcrkbrg7 жыл бұрын
Oh, my love, the butterfly is a bug prettier than you.
@johnmcparadisio13 жыл бұрын
If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell. - John McParadise
@tylarius15 жыл бұрын
I've got piles and piles and piles of forks but not an ounce of happiness
@chickencoopradio12 жыл бұрын
haikus by the dozen did some one say donuts
@subterranean4715 жыл бұрын
That's what some obscure zen fellow said about Kerouac's Buddhism. He is in touch with himself. Besides writers have to be egotistic to some extent.