Big Beat Steve Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Like Jaki BYE-ARD and similar to Don BYE-AS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Have I been mis-pronouncing Donald Byrd's name all this time? Is it Bird or By-erd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umum_cypher Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Don't know if this name came up, but can someone tell me how to pronounce Byard Lancaster? Thanks. Easy, Bye-ard. Maybe for you! Thanks though! But I have no idea how to pronounce 'Lancaster'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Have I been mis-pronouncing Donald Byrd's name all this time? Is it Bird or By-erd? I always thought it was "Bird." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Have I been mis-pronouncing Donald Byrd's name all this time? Is it Bird or By-erd? I always thought it was "Bird." Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) Darcy James Argue? Is his last name pronounced as in "argument"? EDIT: The answer is "yes." I just asked him directly via the blog. Duh... Shoulda done that in the first place. Edited May 11, 2009 by Bill Barton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkeith Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Hmmm.... how 'bout Aki Takese? and/or Yosuke Inoue? I know that Yosuke is /YOSE kay/, but I haven't a clue on that last name. And Piotr Wojtasik? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 (edited) This is an ambitious site for pronunciations - and it doesn't necessarily feature the personal names that we frequently search for here, BUT, it seems to be fun and informative: "All the Words in the World. Pronounced." [if you go to the "Listen & Learn" link, you'll get 30 randomly chosen words]. Edited May 12, 2009 by rostasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 This is an ambitious site for pronunciations - and it doesn't necessarily feature the personal names that we frequently search for here, BUT, it seems to be fun and informative: "All the Words in the World. Pronounced." [if you go to the "Listen & Learn" link, you'll get 30 randomly chosen words]. Thanks for the link! Very cool site... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Bert Jansch?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Oh shit. No sooner than I post a query about his last name I get news in an email that Bert has canceled his entire North American tour indefinitely. Hope that he's okay. {{{Bert}}} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonewall15 Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Bob Zieff? Like "life" or "leaf"? I can handle Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Bob Zieff? Like "life" or "leaf"? I can handle Bob. where the name comes from people thought it rhymed with leaf i guess... (i've seen some funny german names from the US spelled with "ie" in a place where a "ei" belonged so that people pronounced it like "eye", such as "pfiefer" instead of the original german "pfeifer" (=piper), so that the pronouniation remains pf-eye-fer; but i wouldn't think zieff is such a name...) of course all this doesn't say anything about how he wants it to be pronounced... (quick google search: the name zeiff does exist in germany but it's rare, zieff is fairly common but mostly in the US - so maybe the name doesn't come from germany after all...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Probably completely obvious, but you never know.... Jutta Hipp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Probably completely obvious, but you never know.... Jutta Hipp? Hipp is just Hip "J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Right on, Niko! At any rate, "Jutta" is NOT to be pronounced the way it unfortunately has been preserved for posterity in the grooves of the "Hickory House" LP on BN when Leonard Feather introduced her by mumbling something like "Choodah". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Bassist John Neves' last name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Probably completely obvious, but you never know.... Jutta Hipp? Hipp is just Hip "J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess) Excellent explanation, Niko, thank you. And not quite as obvious as I thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 John Neves sounds as a short e - I met him a few times in Boston in the '70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aparxa Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Probably completely obvious, but you never know.... Jutta Hipp? Hipp is just Hip "J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess) Excellent explanation, Niko, thank you. And not quite as obvious as I thought... sounds like Colorado. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazztrain Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Rhymes with revs (as in what you might say that someone does with an engine). I often saw him in the neighborhood in which I lived in the 1980s. For some time after he passed, I still half expected to see him when I rounded the corner at Mass. Ave. and Boylston Street. He seemed like a nice guy. Bassist John Neves' last name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 The name of the vocal group the Treniers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 (edited) The TRENN-EARS Edited February 5, 2010 by Harold_Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Ken Nordine's last name? Nor-DEEN or Nor-DINE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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