The Hunt - Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray 1947

 "They ate voraciously as Dean, sandwich in hand, stood bowed and jumping before the big phonograph, listening to a wild bop record I had just bought called “The Hunt,” with Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray blowing their tops before a screaming audience that gave the record fantastic frenzied volume."

Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Two Chapter 1 "To the wild sounds of Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray blowing “The Hunt,” Dean and I played catch with Marylou over the couch." Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Two Chapter 4

Symphony Sid Show - Charlie Parker

"Dean took the wheel and drove clear the rest of the way to New York, and we began to hear the Symphony Sid show on the radio with all the latest bop." Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Three Chapter 11

Moon Dreams - Miles Davis

 "Bop was somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis."

Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part One Chapter 3

Sweet Adeline - The Mills Brothers

 "The boys from the chorus showed up. They began singing “Sweet Adeline.”

Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part One Chapter 9

A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday

Dean sat on the floor with a music box and listened with tremendous amazement at the little song it played, “A Fine Romance”—“Little tinkling whirling doodlebells. Ah! Listen! We’ll all bend down together and look into the center of the music box till we learn about the secrets—tinklydoodlebell, whee.” Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Two Chapter 3

Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Stick McGhee

"Dean and I had ended up with a colored guy called Walter who ordered drinks at the bar and had them lined up and said, “Wine-spodiodi!” which was a shot of port wine, a shot of whisky, and a shot of port wine. “Nice sweet jacket for all that bad whisky!” he yelled." Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Three Chapter 4

Billie Holliday In Jack Kerouac's On The Road

 "My mind was filled with that great song “Lover Man” as Billie Holiday sings it; I had my own concert in the bushes. “Someday we’ll meet, and you’ll dry all my tears, and whisper sweet, little things in my ear, hugging and a-kissing, oh what we’ve been missing, Lover Man, oh where can you be . . .” It’s not the words so much as the great harmonic tune and the way Billie sings it, like a woman stroking her man’s hair in soft lamp-light."

Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part One Chapter 13

Dean sat on the floor with a music box and listened with tremendous amazement at the little song it played, “A Fine Romance”—“Little tinkling whirling doodlebells. Ah! Listen! We’ll all bend down together and look into the center of the music box till we learn about the secrets—tinklydoodlebell, whee.” Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Two Chapter 3