Description
Offered for sale is an original U.S. rechanneled stereo pressing of Word Jazz by Ken Nordine.
About this copy: This copy of Word Jazz is a 1958 U.S. stereo pressing on the Dot label of an album that was originally released in 1957.
The cover is VG++ with a small stain near the mouth of the cover and a couple of minor corner bends. There are two stickers on the cover – one says “Dot Ultra High Fidelity Stereophonic” and the other says “KEN NORDINE.”
The disc is M- on side one and VG++ on side two, with a long inaudible scuff across the side. There is some “haze” on the vinyl from a chemical reaction with the paper inner sleeve.
A nice copy of a classic LP that’s hard to find in stereo.
Background: Released in 1957, Word Jazz was the second album by voiceover and spoken word recording artist Ken Nordine.
The cover states that Nordine is backed by the “Fred Katz Group;” this was actually Chico Hamilton’s band recording under a pseudonym.
Allmusic.com gave Word Jazz a 4 1/2 star review:
Already making a comfortable living in the world of commercial voice-overs — you could hear him pitching cars, wine, coffee, and more whenever you turned on the TV or radio — Ken Nordine felt the need to do something creative for himself, and thus he started the Word Jazz series of records. Each of the tracks here features Nordine speaking over top of a very upbeat jazz backing track provided by the Fred Katz Group, and the combination sounds not unlike a radio announcer performing beat poetry in places…mostly because that’s exactly what it is. That would be selling this album short, though, because Nordine proves himself more than capable of providing both the smooth vocal tones as well as the truly twisted creative sense necessary to pull this off: in one piece, Nordine is your guide in a museum dedicated to sounds, and elsewhere he takes you on a tour of his own mind. …Word Jazz is still an innovative album and definitely worthy of the sequels that followed.
You can listen to “What Time Is It?” here:
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Dot |
| Catalog Number: |
DLP 25,075 |
| Year of Release: | 1958 |
| Format: | Stereo (rechanneled) |
| Share: |       |
