I was delighted last night to discover that Ken Nordine has his own web site where he has free word jazz.
Don’t know who Ken Nordine is? Odds are you’ve heard his voice many times. But his Word Jazz is something special. Just listen to a few of them and you’ll dig, dig?
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Didn’t I comment about Ken Nordine on DW about a week ago? In case I did not…
I used to listen to him on radio and watch him on early television when I was a teen-ager in Chicago back in the early 1950s. His voice alone was one of the most artisticly notable features of that era of broadcasting.
I recall one occasion in which Nordine was presented on television for more or less a complete hour, reading H P Lovecraft’s set-in-England horror tale, the Rats in the Wall. Just Nordine in a black turtle-neck shirt with black pants, sitting on a stool, facing the camera with an intense pair of eyes, and with that magic voice.
All that, I think, was somewhat earlier than the word jazz that I have no doubt was invented by Nordine.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
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