Ken Nordine, The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1 - 1h 7m 9s

Tracks & Durations

1. My Baby	2:37
2. Original Sin	2:59
3. What time Is It?	3:52
4. Confessions Of 349-18-5171	7:25
5. Hunger Is From	3:52
6. The Vidiot	5:32
7. Reaching Into In	2:07
8. Adult Kindergarten	2:03
9. The Sound Museum	7:11
10. Bury-It-Yourself Time Capsules	3:10
11. Anytime, Anytime	2:24
12. A Whistler	3:03
13. Flibberty Jib	4:47
14. Faces In The Jazzamatazz	4:44
15. I Used To Think My Right Hand Was Uglier Than My Left	2:20
16. Looks Like It's Going To Rain	3:33
17. Down The Drain	3:14
18. You're Getting Better	2:06

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Review

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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The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1

Tracks: 18, Disk length: 1h 7m 11s (+0m 2s)

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