Ken nordine colors a sensuous listening experience 1967. For many jazz fans, the name ken nordine and the phrase word jazz are synonymous. Buy colors by ken nordine mp3 download online from 7digital united states over 30 million high quality tracks in our store. Ken nordine is a member of vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Ken nordine colors the concept of this project was about to build an alphabet and create a graphic composition with characters that were found in renaissance painti read more.
His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. Ken nordine download high quality complete mp3 albums. Nordine reworked the ads and took out the sponsor for his album colors, which included thirtyfour riffs. But you wont find much written about him in jazz literature. Nordine died saturday at the age of 98, his son ken nordine, jr. Ken nordine was asked to produce a series of radio spots for the fuller paint company, and how the heck do you promote color on the radio anyway. Free associating with ken nordine new dimensions radio. Really now, how many words actually do rhyme with puce. Nordine did 10 commercials, each playfully extolling one of the colors in the spectrumactually it was 9 colors and an. They were weird halftrips into strange references snippets from leonard da vincis journals about dissecting.
Ken nordine s voice was tailormade for late night radio. Biv aka the primary color continuum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. He attended lane technical college prep high school chicago and the university of chicago. Ken nordine april, 1920 february 16, 2019 was an american voiceover and recording artist, best known for his series of word jazz albums. Listen to free internet radio, sports, music, news, talk and podcasts. The show won several awards and was very popular, especially with the kids. He says even a nanosecond has a beginning, middle and end.
It really is free form blank verse poetry about colors set to inoffensive smooth jazz. One critic wrote that you may not know ken nordine by name or face, but youll almost certainly recognize his voice. His albums of hip and creative free form spokenword vignettes include. Wordjazzradio15 scanner internet archive html5 uploader 1. Listen free to ken nordine colors olive, lavender and more.
Jun 01, 2011 colors is a word jazz album by voiceover and recording artist ken nordine. Just a free loading critic who loves to see the show. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. There was this guy who was a regular guy who lived a regular life got up 7. Ken lent his supremely dulcet tones to numerous film trailers and tv commercials and continues to host his own weekly radio show and perform live in concert. But then again, there are few if any like wordjazz architect ken nordine. Not ken nordine the enigmatic wordsmith intoning aural theatre, rather, ken nordine narrating someone elses work. Olive, poor thing sits and thinks that its drab sure does sits and sits and sits and sits and thinks about its olive drab drab doesnt know that its about to be named.
Commentator ken nordine says its hard to pin down the exact thing called now. In his liner essay, nordine describes the plusminute epic as eight statements of christ identification, a psychiatric theology. Well, all the ken nordine that i have, straight and not, for a 3 hour wander wondering excursion complete with receptacle dwellers, stuff from his early 90s npr series, and most of his records which began appearing in 1957 and have not stopped yet. In the beginningoh, long before thatwhen light was deciding who should be in and who should be out of the spectrum yellow was in trouble even then it seems that green.
Born in chicago, illinois, ken nordine is the son of an architect. Ken nordine colors a sensuous listening experience. Ken nordine january 1920 is an american voiceover and recording artist. Ken nordine april, 1920 february 16, 2019 new york times obituary watch ken s videos on youtube find ken s records on cd baby watch ken s videos on vimeo visit ken s facebook tribute page contact ken nordine, jr. Ken nordine, surreal poet with a jazz beat, is dead at 98. Find ken nordine discography, albums and singles on allmusic. Colors divulges the silliness of orange, the pomp of purple, the offwhiteness of whiterevealing the many subtle personalities of color. That work for hire material is quite distinct from his work as a recording artist, yet that is precisely what the bulk of these nonword jazz albums are. Ken nordine colors 1966 lyrics at the lyric archive. Look for it, then click the link to activate your account.
Faces in the window old time radio golden age of radio. Colors is a word jazz album by voiceover and recording artist ken nordine. He had a very special mind, an amazing way of looking at the world and making his own sense out of it, his son said. Ken nordine april, 1920 february 16, 2019 was an american voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of word jazz albums, featuring spoken word poetry over a jazz backdrop. His unparalleled, smooth baritone guided wbez listeners through the show word jazz for more than 40 years. Apr 10, 2014 it was called now nordine and all i knew at the time was that it was made possible by a grant from.
Ken nordines 1966 album colors is the perfect marriage of the beat poetic impulse and good ol regular american advertising. Stream live events, live playbyplay nfl, mlb, nba, nhl, college football, ncaa basketball, and premier league matches. By the sixties, nordine became a beat poet playing with word jazz. There arent many artists who could get away with creating an album of short eclectic odes to the various relatives and extended kinfolk of roy g. In the midsixties, ken nordine recorded ten radio commercials that ran thirteen weeks for fuller paint, each spot taking on a different color. Colors by ken nordine, released in 2003 on asphodel.
Each twopage spread concerns one inexact hue, from a variation o. If you dont see the email in your inbox, check your spam, bulk or promotions folder. Originally intended as a ninepart series of commercials for a paint company, ken nordines 1967 classic is still a brilliant and, um colorful trip through the big crayon box. On faces in the window, nordine read from the gothic horror works of poe, balzac, dostoevsky and others. I also have an episode of now nordine episode 214, magenta and other things, not a copy of colors. Maybe its because ken is an anomaly, a oneofakind jazz sound. Npr commentator nordine eschews pure color in this rainbow of idiosyncratic poems, which began as a series of radio ads for paint. His free form, streamofconsciousness poems were a kind of spoken jazz, delivered in a resonant baritone. Aug 30, 2006 ken nordineacreator, word jazz for nearly 50 years, chicagoan ken nordine has pushed the bounds of radio and reality with his imaginative sounds and stories. Word jazz creator ken nordine remembered wbez chicago.
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