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The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1 [Import]

~ Ken Nordine
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  • Audio CD (27 Nov 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B0000032ND
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 331,365 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. My Baby
2. Original Sin
3. What Time Is It?
4. Confessions of 349-18-5171
5. Hunger Is From
6. Vidiot
7. Reaching into In
8. Adult Kindergarten
9. Sound Museum
10. Bury-It-Yourself Time Capsule
11. Anytime, Anytime
12. Whistler
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

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You've heard Ken Nordine before, his immediate baritone resonating like the voice of God in countless radio and TV commercials, hawking everything from Taster's Choice to Murine. In the late 1950s, though, Nordine created "word jazz"--a combination of storytelling, sound painting, and pre-beat improvisation--as a less commercial, more personal outlet for his natural speaking talents. Best gathers the brightest of his four initial albums--material that found him somewhere between the prosody of Jack Kerouac and the arch satire of Nichols & May. As the title suggests, there's a light jazz backing behind Nordine's incantations--ranging from the lighthearted "Hunger Is From" to the disturbing, absurd scenario "Flibberty Jib" to the harrowing memoir "Confessions of 349-18-5171." Good, curious stuff. --Michael Ruby

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5.0 out of 5 stars GENIUS IS TO MADNESS KIN, 6 Jul 2002
By G. Nield "future_buddha" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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So is this crazy stuff or inspired? I don't know, maybe you need to be a true prophet to decide. The consolation is that it is GREAT FUN. I, being a Brit (but nevertheless a lover of Americans), have always been critical of the Americans lack of irony, but I can tell you Mr Nordine ooze's it! In some ways Ken Nordine could be dismissed as a musical oddity (I think one review likens it to William Shatners descent into musical madness) but for me he has genuinely invented a new communications genre. This is Rap for the Jazz fan, pop for the poetry lovers, and sheer bloody good fun for the rest of us. But do not dismiss this work as a triviality, for there is depth here. It is a bit like Nietzsche's emblematic abyss - the more you stare into it, the more it stares into you. Be warned!
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