Ken Nordine

Birth : 1920-04-13, Cherokee, Iowa, USA

Death : 2019-02-16

History

Ken Nordine was 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.

Movies

The Eye Is Never Filled
Music
A collection of word jazz pieces set to abstract computer-generated visuals.
The Eye Is Never Filled
Director
A collection of word jazz pieces set to abstract computer-generated visuals.
Fleshfilm
Music
Ken Nordine’s jazz spoken-word soundtrack was the inspiration for this work and a collection of body parts that Andrew Kötting had accumulated over the years of friends and family on super 8. "The true colour that flesh should be is the colour that flesh is".
Revolution - A Demonstration of the Video Toaster
"The NewTek Video Toaster was a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of standard-definition video in NTSC, PAL, and resolution independent formats on Commodore Amiga computers and subsequently on computers running the Windows operating system. It comprises various tools for video switching, chroma keying, character generation, animation, and image manipulation. The Video Toaster won the Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in 1993."
The Triumph
Narrator
Music video for the Jackson 5's "Can You Feel It?" Conceived by Michael Jackson, this early experiment in longform music video shows the Jackson brothers standing triumphantly over a city, spreading gold dust and joy onto a happy populace.
The Triumph - Can You Feel It
Narrator (voice)
Short film featuring 'Can You Feel It' by The Jacksons.
Worth How Many Words
Narrator
Promotional film on the use, application, and benefits of photography and film produced for the Eastman Kodak Company.
Fearless Frank
The Storytelling Stranger
A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.
Story of the Christmas Carol
Narrator
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.