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Answer may also be found HERE.

What a great site. The volunteer DJs that spin sounds at KNTU (University of North Texas Jazz) need this BAD! They regularly butcher musician's names. It has gotten the point where listener's keep lists.

Here are examples (with their interpretation in quotes)

Dizzy Gillespie - "Gillepsie"

Paul Gonzalves - "Gone-salves"

Ed Soph - "Sahf"

Steve Houghton - "Huffton"

and the list goes on and on....

Thanks for the link :tup

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Good site, but

Bluiett, Hamiet  ham-ee-it blew-it  Saxophonist, arranger, producer. Alternative:  ham-it    [Authority for latter: Personal conversation with the artist by Richard Paske, dpmusic, St. Paul, MN]

I know several friends (and occasional sidemen) of Bluiett's who ALL say

HAM - it

so I don't know why it's listed as "alternative" by WWUH.

Also, I thought Phineas Newborn was pronounced "Fine-ness" -- at least, I'm always getting corrected when I say "Finny-us"!!!

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