#kennordine

[maciejbaranowski]

Check out tonight my music radio show 9PM (CET) https://radiokapital.pl/shows/piekny-dom/

[jimherrington]

RIP Ken Nordine.

In the shadow of lakefront high-rises on Chicago’s north side sits a massive turn-of-the-century house incongruous to it’s surroundings. The house stands out because it doesn’t stand out — at first. Surrounded by new development and shiny towering buildings, this Munsters-like edifice sits back from the street half-hidden by towering oak trees. Leaves blow across the property and an old iron gate creaks back and forth on it’s hinges. It’s difficult at first to discern if anyone lives there or not… maybe it’s haunted, it looks that way. What goes on in there?

Inside, for the last 60 years at least, resided a man who would have been my ideal neighbor when I was 12 years old. Or now. 20th Century America was familiar with his voice as the one that sold them Folger’s Coffee and other products via his work in radio and TV commercials and from narrating a thousand movie trailers. But in the late 1950s his after-hours gig was going into his large attic recording studio and laying down surreal, self-penned Kafka-esque monologues over a bebop beat… Word Jazz.

So long, and thanks, to the voice-over of my dreams, Ken Nordine (1920 - 2019). He would have turned 99 in April.

Photo and words © Jim Herrington

I recommend lying in bed at 2am with the lights off and listening to these:

https://youtu.be/AJShfHV2xA8

https://youtu.be/mQ-VIRo31mI

https://youtu.be/UVYpCdY4Y_0

https://youtu.be/LGCcx4yCXZg

https://youtu.be/OXOOAGJgal0

https://youtu.be/OixUw72ojmU

[altoecko]

Album on table! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOXkmGVym_wXsrfPaeADk-v1_bxrzqQbM https://open.spotify.com/album/2zk7d13GlvArJTHlRHDdzO?si=6s8F2ZNdROmi3fJZ2XeJ1g https://www.discogs.com/Ken-Nordine-Colors-A-Sensuous-Listening-Experience/release/1230078 #colorsasensuouslisteningexperience #colors #kennordine #philipsrecords #weirdmusic #experimentalmusic #cooljazz #spokenword #jazz #flesh #mercuryrecords #rainbow #music #1966 #the60s #atlantavinylcollectors #avc #vinylgram #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #vinylrecords #licoricepizza #instawax #instavinyl #nowspinning #recordcollecting #recordcollection #recordcollector #notforsale #neverforsale (at Peachtree Corners, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZ0mN9pR9b/?igshid=1gbahvel5kjlh

[mediadigest]

Kalenderblätter 22/02/2020 - 10/366 ___ #kennordine 1958 | Ken Nordine - Sounds in Space Punk + New Wave: 11/366 | Squeeze Metal Covers: 2/366 | Mountain Witch - Cold River Triple 0 Die Kalender machen der von mir auferlegten Erwartungshaltung, als Neuentdeckungsquelle, alle Ehre. Drei mal „Never Heard“. Das Streamingsignal glüht heute. Disclaimer: Was das hier ist? Nachdem ich 2018 diesen kleinen Kalender gekauft hatte, kam mir die Idee, diesen auch wirklich zu „nutzen“. Was ich dann in 2019 auch umsetzte. Außer jeden Tag drauf zu schauen, ein Kalenderblatt abzureißen, nahm ich mir vor, das jeweilige Album am gleichen Tag auch zu hören. Gleichzeitig schaue ich nach ob ich das Album in meiner Sammlung habe und wenn es mir gefällt, oder ich tatsächlich „schwerwiegende“ Lücken in meinem Regal entdecke, dann kauf‘ ich das Album nach. Auf jeden Fall eine nette Art, neue Musik kennen zu lernen. Statistik 2019: 59/365 https://www.instagram.com/p/B83E55po1NM/?igshid=5ot9g36l6wd1

[djactionslacks]

TONIGHT on my @kmhd_jazz_radio show - we'll travel the tracks into an end of the year celebration of some of the musicians who left us to travel on to their next destination. Pictured here are just a handful of the folks you'll hear tonight - #Ethel Ennis #HarveyScales #DorothyMasuka #KenNordine #CloraBryant #JackieMoore In #Portland & the Willamette Valley tune your radios to 89.1fm 7pm to 9pm Stream it live at kmhd.org #kmhd https://www.instagram.com/p/B6jHEHDhrKy/?igshid=uugklcjigc6j

[reconstructiveart]

Good poetry to make you think and smile on occasion. #SDG #wellspentyouth #kennordine #wordjazz #sonofwordjazz #explainssomuch https://www.instagram.com/p/ByG5WgXn-Xl/?igshid=1e88cuqq0d3ed

[aquietexplosion]

Ken Nordine, Surreal Poet With a Jazz Beat, Is Dead at 98

His improvisational poetry, which he called “word jazz,” attracted admiring collaborators like Fred Astaire, Jerry Garcia, Tom Waits and Laurie Anderson.

[adidick]

R.I.P. Ken Nordine. Such an amazingly vivid voice. So easy to get lost in his albums. Love this one and “Colors” (which has music hard panned left and voice and extra bits hard panned right). Clever, and perfectly delivered. . #albumcoverart #albumcover #cd #kennordine #wordjazz #jazzamatazz #voiceover #voiceoverartist #soundpainting (at Oslo, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9bjXch9nz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gbhvxa5q9497