Wonder where Lawrence Ferlinghetti fits in. He wrote “Coney Island of the Mind” I think. There was also a trumpet or sax player whose name I can’t remember who was very important to the boyfriend of a friend of mine. This brings back a lot of memories.... Incidentally, their apartments were , in general, pig pens or worse. Blech.
Now I remember: Maynard Ferguson.
He was mentioned a couple of times:" In the mid-1950s this group expanded to include figures associated with the San Francisco Renaissance such as Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch and Kirby Doyle."
"Then during the 1950s there was much cross-pollination with San Francisco area writers (Ginsberg, Corso, Cassady and Kerouac all moved there for a time). Ferlinghetti (one of the partners who ran the City Lights press and bookstore) became a focus of the scene as well as the older poet Rexroth, whose apartment became a Friday night literary salon. Rexroth organized the famous Six Gallery reading in 1955, the first public appearance of Ginsberg's poem Howl."