Hammer, Jack - Rebellion - Jack Hammer Sings And Reads Songs And Poems Of The Beat Generation (2025 Reissue)

Jack Hammer was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter, credited as the co-writer on 'Great Balls Of Fire'.

(Real name: Earl Solomon Burroughs). Jack Hammer Sings & Reads Songs & Poems Of The Beat Generation was originally released in 1960 on the Warwick label, and is now a highly covetable artefact of the beatnik era. Dusty Groove said "Thanks a lot to Jack Hammer, who comes off here like a self-styled Oscar Brown Jr!

Despite the title, most of the work seems to be Jack's own – and the record features some hip Ginsberg/Kerouac-styled poems spoken over small combo jazz backing by an unnamed group with a great guitarist – plus more tracks that are actually songs, done in the evocative folk jazz style that Brown was using heavily in his recordings of the period.."