"Jazz writers," such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, upheld their poetic ideals to the techniques of jazz musicians, such as rhythm, improvisation, and call and response. ... Many similarities have been drawn between the musician and the writer. ... Writer Ralph Ellison is one who began his adult career as a trumpet player, but then switched to writing as his primary passion; although his art still perseveres as an embodiment of musical homage. ... The similarity between the temporal construction of a jazz creation and a poetic one is acute. ... Dean Moriarty, Neal Cassady's persona i...

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