| rdfs:comment | - Ken Nordine (born April 13, 1920) is an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. (Read more at Wikipedia.)
- Ken Nordine (b. 1920) is a performance artist, voice actor, announcer, and radio personality, best known for his recorded poetry (often with a steam of consciousness sensibility) known as "word jazz." His distinctive voice has been utilized in commercials, experimental short films, film trailers, and other media, and most recently he has re-edited his word jazz for availability as podcasts.
- Ken Nordine (born April 13, 1920) is an American voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that "you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost certainly recognize his voice." The son of Theresia and Nore S. Nordine, a contractor, Ken Nordine was born in Cherokee, Iowa. The family later moved to Chicago, where he attended Lane Technical College Prep High School and the University of Chicago. He has three sons with his wife Beryl whom he married in 1945. During the 1940s, he was heard on The World's Great Novels and other radio programs broadcast from Chicago. He attracted wider attention when he recorded the aural vigne
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| abstract | - Ken Nordine (b. 1920) is a performance artist, voice actor, announcer, and radio personality, best known for his recorded poetry (often with a steam of consciousness sensibility) known as "word jazz." His distinctive voice has been utilized in commercials, experimental short films, film trailers, and other media, and most recently he has re-edited his word jazz for availability as podcasts. An active recording artist since the 1950s, Nordine's track "Hunger Is From" (from his 1957 LP Word Jazz) was utilized by Jim Henson as a Sam and Friends sketch (lipsynched by Yorick). Nordine later provided narration for the Henson-produced Sesame Street animated segment "Bumble Ardy" (designed by Maurice Sendak). Nordine began his performing career in the 1940s on old-time radio, where he was a staple of the Chicago airwaves as a narrator, announcer, and actor. He announced such notable series as The Breakfast Club (whose cast included Fran Allison), where he read the commercials for Toni Home Permanents (1946-1947), as well as Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy (ca. 1947-1951). He served as host-narrator of The Adventurer's Club (1947-1948) and was frequently heard on Chicago station WMAQ, including The World's Great Novels (1947-1948) and an episode of the pioneering black history/civil rights series Destination Freedom (in a 1949 episode, prosecuting racial prejudice, literally on the witness stand). For WMAQ TV in 1955, he narrated an adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
- Ken Nordine (born April 13, 1920) is an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. (Read more at Wikipedia.)
- Ken Nordine (born April 13, 1920) is an American voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that "you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost certainly recognize his voice." The son of Theresia and Nore S. Nordine, a contractor, Ken Nordine was born in Cherokee, Iowa. The family later moved to Chicago, where he attended Lane Technical College Prep High School and the University of Chicago. He has three sons with his wife Beryl whom he married in 1945. During the 1940s, he was heard on The World's Great Novels and other radio programs broadcast from Chicago. He attracted wider attention when he recorded the aural vignettes on Word Jazz (Dot, 1957). Word Jazz, Son of Word Jazz (Dot, 1958) and his other albums in this vein feature Nordine's narration over cool jazz by the Chico Hamilton jazz group, recording under the alias of Fred Katz, who was then the cellist with Hamilton's quintet. Nordine began performing and recording such albums at the peak of the beat era and was associated with the poetry-and-jazz movement. However, some of Nordine's "writings are more akin to Franz Kafka or Edgar Allan Poe" than to the beats. Many of his word jazz tracks feature critiques of societal norms. Some are lightweight and humorous, while others reveal dark, paranoid undercurrents and bizarre, dream-like scenarios.
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