Brain Storm by Ken Nordine

[kennordine]

thanks for the thanks. Doing something with serious silly scribbles.

[Mudhen37]

Hello Ken! Heard you just a cpl of days ago, Bob Edwards interview, sounding as thoughtful and mellow as always. Took me straight back to old Venice Beach, poetry readings, Lighthouse AllStars, Nights in Tunisia. I still cherish my venerable LP "Word Jazz" w/all those great 50's musicians twining thru like ivy gone crazy. "Junk Yard" still shifts my world. Thanks so much for posting all this wonderful fodder!

[kennordine]

I get lost in my fun

[ThePsykoMantis]

ken, you are by far a god of lyrical proportions

[autodelete66]

KEN!

Not even an Intro.,

or an Outro!

Cat got your Tongue???

[kennordine]

The musics I put together sometimes sit around waiting for words. Maybe my right hand is talking to my left, looking for handy empathy. Signal and response. You know how brain storms are,

ken

[happy2oblige]

Lovely.

[kennordine]

Glad you like Brain Storm. My fun is putting it together, then forgetting...and then much later on, saying to myself 'when did I do that?'

ken

[1Wrexham]

You know what? I actually LOVE wordjazz. I have since the early 80's, when they used to play it on our late night Public Radio Station. WordJazz is a great refresher for the mind, like Ornette Coleman or Pharoh Sanders. No one has imitated you because no one CAN imitate you. For that, and at the risk of sounding like a breathless fan (which I am anyway, but DONT TELL KEN!)...uh, Please continue with wordjazz. Your blade has never dulled and I am sure that it will continue to gleam.

[1Wrexham]

If you want to have a really tripindicular experience, try playing Ken Nordine from his own site and a Ken Nordine video from YouTube SIMULTANEOUSLY. Have a Guiness with it if you like. Or a gin and tonic.

[kennordine]

Or a bottle of Ruffino Chianti Classic Gold at La Scarola in Chicago with Grateful Dead's Somoother Dennis McNally's squeeze, Sussana Milliman.

beddybye for me. Stay stober. ken

Good night

[rodgerpegues]

this is the shit and I'm diggin it!!!!!!!!

[kennordine]

thanks for the applause. I persist with the help of many exclamations points. Right now is looking for a new addition I

just did to Youall-Tube: look for it on a screen near you...

AB & STRACT (mind reading lessons

ken

[TucumcariTimmy]

I love Ken. Have since my teens, old gaseous nerdling, now.

I love your work, Ken.

Thanx fer the inspirations.

TT

[TucumcariTimmy]

suplimental words for this...

Bounding, bouncing all up in harm's wayward kitchen.

Folded foder things once began, then swam.

A nightly right-hand turnstile.

Countess of Fall's swept-tonical mirror.

Playing things that were once alive.

Jive.

[milktoastwf]

Ken, do you happen to know Leonard Cohen personally? You two seem contemporaries.

[kennordine]

I did a show with him several years ago in New York. A Sunday Night jazz show on NBC TV. So we met, each doing our thing for Hal Wilner who is a friend to both of us. ken

[Rhemasonador]

Not enough stars to adequately rate! Peter Drew, the VO pro directed me to your work and I can't begin to express how grateful I am. Blessings and HUGS--Andy

[espiegel123]

More!

[MaestroHealy]

All The World is very lucky to have been given the legacy of Ken Nordine. Brain Storm is yet another example. Thank you Ken for all you have given us.

[kennordine]

I know it's you. Love ya.

just me again ken

[kennordine]

palabristo...thanks for upgrading. I wrote the music for something I look forward to having enough time to write words for. Music and words are my sanity. ken

[palabristo]

after first view I voted 2 stars a little disapointed because it didnt' have a word poem in it. now I vote 5 stars after watching it some more. it makes a unique atmosphere on a big screen; whose music is it?

[kennordine]

The music is mine, kind of unwound slowly pon a calm day.

ken

[actron]

Aha, I was going to ask if you did the music for your vids.Very cool indeed.

[kennordine]

Quite a bit of the music lately is put together by me, making music is made much easier with the help of the computer. But I have often had very good players join me on my word jazz albums. Some amazing players who love to do grooves of what's called free form head music. Brain Storm was just me.

[dfunkdamager]

very nice

[kennordine]

thanks for the applause