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The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1

Ken Nordine
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (November 27, 1990)
  • Original Release Date: November 27, 1990
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rhino / Wea
  • ASIN: B0000032ND
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #131,931 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. The Vidiot
7. Reaching Into In
8. Adult Kindergarten
9. The Sound Museum
10. Bury-It-Yourself Time Capsules
11. Anytime, Anytime
12. A 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

Editorial Reviews

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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