You've heard Ken Nordine before, his immediate baritone resonating like the voice of God in countless radio and TV commercials, hawking everything from Taster's Choice to Murine. In the late 1950s, though, Nordine created "word jazz"--a combination of storytelling, sound painting, and pre-beat improvisation--as a less commercial, more personal outlet for his natural speaking talents. Best gathers the brightest of his four initial albums--material that found him somewhere between the prosody of Jack Kerouac and the arch satire of Nichols & May. As the title suggests, there's a light jazz backing behind Nordine's incantations--ranging from the lighthearted "Hunger Is From" to the disturbing, absurd scenario "Flibberty Jib" to the harrowing memoir "Confessions of 349-18-5171." Good, curious stuff. --Michael Ruby
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Recorded in 2005 in Walnut Creek, CA. 14 tracks including: Showboat Shuffle, Weather Bird Rag, Tiger Moan, Misery Blues, Alligator Hop, Aunt Hagar's Blues, Midnight Mama, Creole Belles.
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One of the Most Important and Influential Composers, Arrangers, Theorists and Conductors in Contemporary Jazz, this Release Includes the Three Different 1956 Sessions that Mark George Russell’s Complete Recording Legacy with Bluebird as a Leader. In Addition to These Dates, this CD also Includes the Two Different Sessions Recorded for Bluebird under the Leadership of Alto Saxophonist and Flautist Hal Mckusick with Compositions and Arrangements by George Russell as Bonus Tracks.
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53 TRACKS: 1) Ramadanman - Carla 2) Tetine - I Go To The Doctor 3) Kalbata - Solution (With Clapper Priest) 4) Cotti - The Search 5) Subway - Simplex (Gatto Fritto Mix) 6) Warior Queen & Heatwave - Things Change 7) Kutz - Drumz Of No Return 8) Bulgari - Everything Is Changing 9) Kode9 - Strung 10) Ramadanman - Core 11) Cult Of The 13th Hour - Wickedness (Version) 12) Marias Aguayo - Rita 13) Tayo - Style And Trend 14) Secondo - Kuwait 15) Kalbata - Shooting Rang (With Warrior Queen) 16) Goth Trad - Genesis 17) Ramadanman - Dayrider 18) Cult Of The 13th Hour - Wickedness 19) Pinch - Fighting Talk 20) Bulgari - The Laws Of Physics 21) Kutz - Travelling 22) Tetine - I Go To The Doctor (Css Remix) 23) Silkie - Dam 4 24) Cotti - The Truth Hurts 25) Secondo - Macula 26) Matias Aguayo - 99 Seconds 27) Digital Mystikz - Theif In The Night 28) Tayo - Choppa Riddim 29) Kalbata - Saxon Londinium (With Clapper Priest) 30) Pinch - Chamber Dub 31) Subway - Hal 32) Cotti Vs Chefal - Latest Technology 33) Ramadanman - Core 34) Kutz - Drumz Of No Return 35) Goth Trad - Genesis 36) Cotti - The Search 37) The Cult Of The 13th Hour - Wickedness 38) Kalbata - Solution (With Clapper Priest) 39) Kutz - Travelling 40) Kode9 - Stung 41) Silkie - Dam 4 42) Ramadanman - Dayrider 43) Ramadanman - Kablammo Eleven 44) Tayo Baobinga - Style And Trend 45) Warrio Queen And Heatwave - Things Change 46) Kalbata - Shooting Range (Instrumental) 47) Kalbata - Shooting Range (With Warrior Queen) 48) Cotti - Eat Dirt 49) King Soly - Takeover 50) Kutz - Tarantula 51) Pinch - Bootz 52) Subway - Hal 53) Secondo - Macula
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