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On a single October evening in 1959, fabled people?s poet Kenneth Patchen and Vancouver?s Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and-poetry recordings to disc ? fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchen?s scathing, slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among the very first truly beat documents on record ? preceding efforts by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. This new edition features original notes by Alan Neil & new retrospective notes by rock?n?roll poet of the San Francisco renaissance David Meltzer, as well as wonderful cover reproductions of several of Patchen?s picture-poem paintings.