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..”
