WORD JAZZ by Ken Nordine 1957 LP BEATNIK PERFORMANCE ART Fred Katz
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THIS IS a WORD JAZZ by Ken Nordine 1957 LP BEATNIK PERFORMANCE ART Fred Katz
Ken Nordine is many things to many people: an announcer whose silky-voiced commercials for every drugstore product are heard from coast to coast...
or the resounding narrator of many a widely-seen film...
or, as TIME put it, "a tall, hollow-cheeked Iowan...
who has been delighting and frightening his Chicago TV audiences with poetry recitations and eerie readings of classic horror tales."
More than all that, though, Ken Nordine is a provocatively intense young man remarkably able to articulate the far-ranging travels of his mind.
This ability, and his love for jazz, have resulted in something he prefers to call "a somewhat new medium."
Some years ago, when I first started fooling around with free association, with letting my mind wander with wonder, I had no idea that my joyful experiments would wind up on this unwinding album.
But now, happily, that they have, I'd like to explain what I'm up to.
Of course, what's on the record inside should explain itself and I hope you find that it does, but curiosity requires explanations of explanations, so here goes.
Imagine the imagination as a jazz instrument wailing words, verbal riffs that swing from images to ideas to images, a kind of oscillating curiosity creating far-in far-out fantasies on some fact, a going in any direction that seems to make some sense: up or down, in or out, here or there, now or then, for or against, etc. It can be sad or glad or an ambivalent blend of both. Oxymoronic.
When it's glad-sad, it has something of the wry tension of humorous blues.
It's also out-loud day dreaming that may be of interest to psychiatrists, amateur or other-wise.
Let's say that it's something my unfree free will has to do, a necessary something that helps me belong to something larger than myself.
Maybe it's a rebellion with cause, and maybe there are a lot of other maybes I don't know anything about and never will.
Motivations are like an impulsive child, like the unselfconscious conscious skipping across a pretty muddy puddle.
So what do you say we get our four feet back on the ground.
It is recorded here for the first time.
1. WHAT TIME IS IT? 3:48 2. MY BABY 2:36 3. SOUND MUSEUM 7:09 4. THE VIDIOT. 5:30
1. ROGER 5:05 2. HUNGER IS FROM 3:47 3. LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO RAIN 3:27 4. FLIBBERTY JIB 4:42
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