JSngry Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 Love the voice, love the perspective. The Word Jazz stuff gets a little cutesy at times, but when it's good, it's great. And the post-WJ stuff is REALLY interesting, especially COLORS. "Middlebrow" all the way, but I'm cool with that. Ken Nordine is all right with me. How are things in your town? Quote
RDK Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 "Colors" is terrific! I have a bunch of Nordine CDs and albums but haven't spun any for a while. One cool, jivin' hep cat... Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 My dad turned me onto him when I was little... he's fun! I remember back in high school I found a CD that had a bunch of his old stuff on it and bought it for my dad who was thrilled since he had long lost his original vinyl. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 By the way, who was his band back then? Quote
JSngry Posted January 6, 2004 Author Report Posted January 6, 2004 By the way, who was his band back then? Various West Coast cats, including Paul Horn & John Pisano, a.o. The later stuff gets into some "free" type music w/Robert Campbell (?), and the most recent thing I've heard by him (released on some kind of Grateful Dead-related label) is kinda "trance-y/electronica". These days, he's no longer "fun" as much as he is "whimsical/mystical", and he does it quite nicely, I think. And then there's the Levi's and Taster's Choice commercials! Quote
WD45 Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 Colors was the BOMB. Especially "Flesh." Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 When I was working on the Chicago Jazz Festival we used him as MC a couple of times, and he was a very warm guy to work with. He has a weekly show on WBEZ in Chicago. Check outTHIS. Quote
Larry Kart Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 Played golf with Nordine once, about 10 years ago. (We both showed up at a local public course as singles at the same time and teed off together.) He was pleased to be recognized -- you couldn't mistake that voice -- but was grumpy about the state of his game, the kind of golfer who can't believe that his lost shot went awry when in fact it would have been miraculous if he ever hit one that didn't. (I'm no good either but not indignant/surprised about it.) Speaking of "Colors," Dutch jazz pianist/composer Michiel Braam had made an album of that title (with bassist Wilbert De Joode and drummer Michael Vatcher) that's based on Nordine's poems. Heard the group live in Chicago about a month ago and was impressed. Braam, like a lot of post-M. Mengelberg Dutch modernists is a witty eccentric with a personal twist -- he loves to play with rhythmic wrong-footedness and has his own way brittle of doing it, has formidable chops, and reads Monk back towards Waller, as seen through a broken kaleidoscope. For further info go to www.michielbraam.com He's written about in Kevin Whitehead's book "New Dutch Swing." Quote
chris olivarez Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 Along with James Earl Jones his is a voice I wish I had. One of these days I'll need to take a refresher course on his recordings but I do remember them as pretty cool. Quote
Use3D Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 Yeah Ken Nordine's alright in my book, haha. Quote
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