Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead [LP]

Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead [LP]On 12th March 1962 The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet featuring some of the UK's finest modern jazz musicians together with poets Pete Brown (co writer Cream) and Michael Horovitz (Britain's Beat Laureate) performed a historic experimental gig at the SCR Students' Building on the Southampton University Campus. The evening featured post bop jazz, poetry, jazz oems and solo and exchange sound poetry, as well as performances of the most ambitious

On 12th March 1962 The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet - featuring some of the UK's finest modern jazz musicians together with poets Pete Brown (co-writer/Cream) and Michael Horovitz (Britain's Beat Laureate) - performed a historic experimental gig at the SCR Students' Building on the Southampton University Campus. The evening featured post-bop jazz, poetry, jazz-oems and solo and exchange sound-poetry, as well as performances of the most ambitious work the Septet developed, Brown and Horovitz's 'Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead'. The magical events of that night were captured on a reel-to-reel tape recorder by the artists' friend Victor Schonfield. To celebrate Record Store Day they are now released for the first time as a double 180gm vinyl individually numbered box set with a deluxe full size booklet containing photos, reminiscences, essays and memorabilia.