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"Tract" / William Carlos Williams (Hoagy Carmichael, reader; Ralph Peña Quintet)

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Tape 397: Jazz Canto, vol. 1, side 1, 1958
Tape 397, side 1: Jazz canto, vol. 1, 1958, transferred from the commercial 33⅓-rpm record (World Pacific Records PJ-1244). CONTENTS: Tape 397, side 1) \"Poets to come\" / Walt Whitman (John Carradine, reader; Jazz Canto Ensemble) (0:02) -- \"Tract\" / William Carlos Williams (Hoagy Carmichael, reader; Ralph Peña Quintet) (2:36) -- \"In my craft or sullen art\" / Dylan Thomas (Ben Wright, reader; Jazz Canto Ensemble; Fred Katz, composer) (7:16) -- \"Night song for the sleepless\" / Lawrence Lipton (John Carradine, reader; Chico Hamilton Quintet) (8:48) -- \"Lament\" / Dylan Thomas (Ben Wright, reader; Jazz Canto Ensemble; Jack Montrose, composer) (14:42).
Tape 397, side 1: Jazz canto, vol. 1, 1958, transferred from the commercial 33⅓-rpm record (World Pacific Records PJ-1244). CONTENTS: Tape 397, side 1) "Poets to come" / Walt Whitman (John Carradine,…
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