How do you pronounce.........

[ghost of miles]

Harry Babasin's last name?

[Stereojack]

Harry Babasin's last name?

I've always said BA (short a)-buh-sin

[Chas]

How about the surnames of Doug Mettome and Harold Ousley ?

[sidewinder]

Harry Babasin's last name?

I've always heard it pronounced (on the radio over here) 'Babbasin' - all short.

[JSngry]

Harold Ousley ?

OWs-lee

[Spontooneous]

Maybe it's in one of his books, maybe it's in liner notes. Somewhere Ira Gitler maps out Doug Mettome's name: MET-oh-me.

[Teasing the Korean]

I've heard Axel Stordahl pronounced both

Stor - DAHL

and

STOR - dl

Which is it?

[MoGrubb]

Dawl-fee

A good Southern name, Y'all, wouldn't want it to sound like a pineapple.

[ghost of miles]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

[Teasing the Korean]

I've heard Axel Stordahl pronounced both

Stor - DAHL

and

STOR - dl

Which is it?

[jtaylor]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

E-nuh-vold-sin

Edited May 15, 2007 by jtaylor

[rockefeller center]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

E-nuh-vold-sin

No way. Enevoldsen is a Danish name. Pronounce it like the Italian 'bene' without the 'b'. The last E, I suppose, is silent.

[Chuck Nessa]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

E-nuh-vold-sin

No way. Enevoldsen is a Danish name. Pronounce it like the Italian 'bene' without the 'b'. The last E, I suppose, is silent.

Kinda like "enema"?

[rockefeller center]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

E-nuh-vold-sin

No way. Enevoldsen is a Danish name. Pronounce it like the Italian 'bene' without the 'b'. The last E, I suppose, is silent.

Kinda like "enema"?

Exactly!

[Harold_Z]

I've heard Axel Stordahl pronounced both

Stor - DAHL

and

STOR - dl

Which is it?

I've always heard Stor - DAHL (no particular emphasis on the last syllable. like this: Store-doll.)

[sidewinder]

I've heard Axel Stordahl pronounced both

Stor - DAHL

and

STOR - dl

Which is it?

I've always heard Stor - DAHL (no particular emphasis on the last syllable. like this: Store-doll.)

Dahl would be 'Darl'.

[Claude]

I've always heard Stor - DAHL (no particular emphasis on the last syllable. like this: Store-doll.)

That sounds like the swedish pronounciation.

[jtaylor]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

E-nuh-vold-sin

That was the way one of his former colleagues pronounced it to me.

[Kalo]

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

E-nuh-vold-sin

That was the way one of his former colleagues pronounced it to me.

Always wondered about that one myself.

[ghost of miles]

Double-checking this one--Ahmed Abdul-Malik: last name muh-LEEK, correct? Or no?

[brownie]

Double-checking this one--Ahmed Abdul-Malik: last name muh-LEEK, correct? Or no?

That's the way I have heard it pronouncd!

And remember 'Ahmed' should pronounces ARRRHMed!

[Guest Bill Barton]

Otomo Yoshihide?

Edited August 30, 2007 by Bill Barton

[Kalo]

Otomo Yoshihide?

Just a guess, but based on what I've learned from my Japan-obsessed friend who married a Japanes native, it would be something like this:

Oh-toh-moh Yoh-shee-hee-duh. In my understanding, Japanese tends to give equal emphasis to all of the syllables, thus none of them are stressed more than others.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Otomo Yoshihide?

Just a guess, but based on what I've learned from my Japan-obsessed friend who married a Japanes native, it would be something like this:

Oh-toh-moh Yoh-shee-hee-duh. In my understanding, Japanese tends to give equal emphasis to all of the syllables, thus none of them are stressed more than others.

Thanks, Kalo, that's pretty close to my "best guess" too.

[rostasi]

Japanese tends to give equal emphasis to all of the syllables, thus none of them are stressed more than others.

Whoa....you better ask yer friend again about this 'cause what makes Japanese a mountain to climb for English speaking folks is

that it doesn't equally emphasize all of the syllables! I spent many days just trying to learn the proper way to pronounce "Ryoanji"

this summer and the inflections have to be just right.