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Best of Word Jazz, Volume 1
(CD, 1990)
Primary Artist: Ken Nordine
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Format: CD
Nov 1990
Record Label: Rhino Records (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 081227077327 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. My Baby
2. Original Sin
3. What Time Is It?
4. Confessions of 349-18-5171
5. Hunger Is From
6. Vidiot, The
7. Reaching Into In
8. Adult Kindergarten
9. Sound Museum, The
10. Bury-It-Yourself Time Capsules
11. Anytime, Anytime
12. Whistler, A
13. Flibberty Jib
14. Faces in the Jazzamatazz
15. I Used to Think My Right Hand Was Uglier Than My Left
16. Looks Like It's Going to Rain
17. Down the Drain
18. You're Getting Better
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
"Word Jazz" is the name Nordine coined for his quasi-poetic stream-of- conciousness monologues, which are often backed with a jazz soundtrack. His playful monologues are full of wry humor and a love of beat poet/hipster vernacular. Nordine has also been a successful voice-over artist since the 50's.
Compiled from Nordine's 3 Dot LPs.
He's known best as that cavernously deep voice you hear on the occasional TV commercial, but monologist Nordine is in fact a primary innovator in the field of spoken-word recordings. Nordine's influence is wide, his fans including everyone from Fred Astaire (who once choreographed a dance routine to a Nordine recording) to Tom Waits (who contributes liner notes here and has recorded directly Nordine-influenced pieces).
Sadly, most of Nordine's catalogue remains out of print, but this compilation brings together a bounty of his early material. In calm, low tones, Nordine delivers his bizarre tales, both first-person accounts and shaggy-dog tales, over light, jazzy backing. He comes off like the Rod Serling of the Beat Generation, and THE BEST OF WORD JAZZ presents him in all his subtly offbeat glory.
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