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But the best known exploiters of the new medium are Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen.

Rexroth and Patchen are far apart musically and poetically in their experiments.

Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.

In San Francisco he has worked with Brew Moore, Charlie Mingus, and other `` swinging '' musicians of secure reputation, thus placing himself within established jazz traditions, in addition to being a part of the San Francisco `` School ''.