This collection scrapes the bottom of the Jack Kerouac barrel, unearthing Kerouac documents both worthy of public scrutiny and ones that are not. The title to this CD is a tad misleading, as it begins with a late-1950s session of Kerouac singing, to jazz accompaniment, a song written for him by Sammy Kahn. There are several jump jazz …
Burt Bacharach put aside the drama of his work with Dionne Warwick for a romp through the sex farce that made Woody Allen a hit screenwriter. The giddy playfulness and tongue-in-cheek sensuality of the music is put aside only once, for Warwick’s “Here I Am.” Other songs, of course, include Tom Jones’s title tune and Manfred Mann’s read …
