Tracks
| # | Title | Sung by | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | You’se a Viper | Jonah Jones | 3:16 |
| 1.2 | A Sailboat in the Moonlight | Billie Holiday and her Orchestra | 2:50 |
| 1.3 | Swing Is Here | Gene Krupa’s Swing Band | 2:57 |
| 1.4 | Heckler’s Hop | Roy Eldridge and his Orchestra | 2:39 |
| 1.5 | Killin’ Jive | The Cats and the Fiddle | 2:54 |
| 1.6 | (Hep Hep) The Jumpin’ Jive | Cab Calloway | 2:51 |
| 1.7 | Your Red Wagon | Count Basie Quartet | 2:56 |
| 1.8 | Swing to Bop (a.k.a. Topsy, Charlie’s Choice) | Charlie Christian | 3:27 |
| 1.9 | How High Am I? | Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five | 2:57 |
| 1.10 | Be‐Baba‐Leba | Helen Humes with Bill Doggett Octet | 2:46 |
| 1.11 | (Get Your Knicks on) Route 66 | Nat ‘King’ Cole | 3:04 |
| 1.12 | Slim’s Jam | Slim Gaillard and his Orchestra | 3:20 |
| 1.13 | Popity Pop | Slim Gaillard and his Orchestra | 3:00 |
| 1.14 | Groovin’ High | Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | 2:45 |
| 1.15 | Song of the Vagabonds | Art Tatum | 2:19 |
| 1.16 | Dexter’s Minor Mad | Dexter Gordon | 2:44 |
| 1.17 | Crazy World | Julia Lee & her Boy Friends | 3:01 |
| 1.18 | Lop Pow | Babs Gonzales | 2:42 |
| 1.19 | Scrapple From the Apple | Charlie Parker Quintet | 2:59 |
| 1.20 | Manteca | Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra | 3:09 |
| 1.21 | Tanga (Part 1) | Machito & his Afro Cubans Orchestra | 3:58 |
| 1.22 | Rock and Roll | Wild Bill Moore | 2:53 |
| 2.1 | Gator Tail (Part 2) | Cootie Williams and his Orchestra | 2:50 |
| 2.2 | Tempus Fugue‐It | Bud Powell | 2:29 |
| 2.3 | Four and One Moore | Stan Getz Four Brothers Bop Tenor Sax Stars | 3:48 |
| 2.4 | Sound Lee | Lee Konitz Quintet | 4:08 |
| 2.5 | Boplicity | Miles Davis | 3:02 |
| 2.6 | Soft Shoe | Gerry Mulligan Quartet | 2:41 |
| 2.7 | Little Rootie Tootie | The Thelonious Monk Trio | 3:07 |
| 2.8 | The Nazz | Lord Buckley | 11:49 |
| 2.9 | I Fall in Love Too Easily | Chet Baker Quartet | 3:22 |
| 2.10 | The Rocket Ship Show | Jocko Henderson | 0:36 |
| 2.11 | Shulie a Bop | Sarah Vaughan and her Trio | 2:42 |
| 2.12 | Bones for Zoot | Zoot Sims Quartet | 4:25 |
| 2.13 | (Get Your Knicks on) Route 66 | Bobby Troup | 2:27 |
| 2.14 | Zajj’s Dream | Duke Ellington and His Orchestra | 3:07 |
| 2.15 | Say Man | Bo Diddley | 3:00 |
| 2.16 | American Haïkus | Jack Kerouac | 9:59 |
| 2.17 | Dat Dere | Oscar Brown Jr. | 2:55 |
| 2.18 | Kaddish (Part 1) | Allen Ginsberg | 11:04 |
| 3.1 | The Beat Generation | Bob McFadden and Door | 2:06 |
| 3.2 | High School Drag | Phillipa Fallon | 2:17 |
| 3.3 | Winin’ Boy | Dave Van Ronk | 2:38 |
| 3.4 | Airegin | Lambert, Hendricks & Ross | 3:32 |
| 3.5 | Kookie’s Mad Pad | Edd Byrnes | 2:07 |
| 3.6 | Psychopathia Sexualis | Lenny Bruce | 2:28 |
| 3.7 | But I Was Cool | Oscar Brown Jr. | 2:56 |
| 3.8 | Cool | Del Close & John Brent | 3:54 |
| 3.9 | Uncool | Del Close & John Brent | 1:01 |
| 3.10 | Takin’ New York | Bob Dylan | 3:20 |
| 3.11 | So What | Eddie Jefferson | 3:30 |
| 3.12 | Scrapple From the Apple (À bâtons rompus) | Mimi Perrin, Claudine Barge | 2:54 |
| 3.13 | Readings from “On the Road” and “Visions of Cody” | Jack Kerouac with Steve Allen | 3:32 |
| 3.14 | Is There a Beat Generation | Jack Kerouac | 12:36 |
| 3.15 | The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma | Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Sims | 3:51 |
| 3.16 | Howl | Allen Ginsberg | 21:49 |
| 3.17 | I Sing of Olaf (e. e.cummings) | Roger Steffens | 2:12 |
Source: MusicBrainz release group 0d9896cc-e717-4527-a73a-497aa0adf721 (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.