bertrand Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 The cover of One Flight Up just says 'Niels-Henning Orsted'. Has NHOP been 'NHO' on other recordings? I suspect it was a liberty taken by Reid Miles for esthetic reasons. Bertrand. Quote
Daniel A Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 The cover of One Flight Up just says 'Niels-Henning Orsted'. Has NHOP been 'NHO' on other recordings? I suspect it was a liberty taken by Reid Miles for esthetic reasons. Bertrand. I've not seen NHO, but on an Oscar Peterson Pablo album he was called just "Niels Pedersen". Quote
brownie Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Reid Miles did not want to take the stairs NHO was NHOP on the back cover of the original release. The location of that Wolff photo has always intrigued me. Obviously in Paris but where exactly? Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 NHOP told me Norman Granz said his name was too long and changed it. Quote
John L Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 The location of that Wolff photo has always intrigued me. Obviously in Paris but where exactly? Tanya's place? Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 NHOP told me Norman Granz said his name was too long and changed it. Luckily enough NHOP was the only Dane present at all those session. Just imagine his fellow countryman WILLIAM SCHIÖPFFE would have been called in on drums. Norman Granz and all other English-only speaking recording bigwigs would have been in fits trying to pronounce THAT without getting their tongues twisted inextricably (and writing would not have been much better - "oh that "umlaut" in that funny place, could that possibly be really so??" Small wonder UFFE BAADH did not stick with HIS name either. Quote
Ted O'Reilly Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 "...Norman Granz...English-only speaking..." Is that so? Maybe not a fluent conversationalist, but there are some recordings I've heard of him introducing concerts in German. He may have learned the words/sounds by rote, but to my English-speaking ears, he sounds comfortable enough. And, he did live his last years in Switzerland...though in French-speaking Geneva. Quote
brownie Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 The location of that Wolff photo has always intrigued me. Obviously in Paris but where exactly? Tanya's place? Tanya's Place?!? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Intrigued Parisien would like to know. Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 "...Norman Granz...English-only speaking..." Is that so? Maybe not a fluent conversationalist, but there are some recordings I've heard of him introducing concerts in German. He may have learned the words/sounds by rote, but to my English-speaking ears, he sounds comfortable enough. And, he did live his last years in Switzerland...though in French-speaking Geneva. Hey, I was stating this tongue-in-cheek, but for a good reason, as anybody who has ever heard English-only speaking people make the perfectly mumbled mumbo jumbo out of clearly foreign names can attest to. (O.K., I will have to admit that the French aren't any better - or even worse still - whereas many of us Germans cannot get to grips with that English "th" either). But changing one's GIVEN NAME because the majority population in the country one chose to live in felt inept enough to pronounce this name halfway correctly? (See the case of Uffe Baadh above) - Oh come on ... What would those persons/musicians/artists with REALLY unintelligible and unpronouncable names around on the scene today, such as those with Arab or Indian backgrounds, have to say if the same were demanded of them?? Clearly times have changed. (But have pronunciation abilities evolved in the same way? ) Quote
John L Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 The location of that Wolff photo has always intrigued me. Obviously in Paris but where exactly? Tanya's place? Tanya's Place?!? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Intrigued Parisien would like to know. Just a quip. "Tanya" was a long track on that album. So if she is a Parisian, maybe that is where they took the picture. But maybe not. In fact, quite doubtfully. Quote
brownie Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 The location of that Wolff photo has always intrigued me. Obviously in Paris but where exactly? Tanya's place? Tanya's Place?!? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Intrigued Parisien would like to know. Just a quip. "Tanya" was a long track on that album. So if she is a Parisian, maybe that is where they took the picture. But maybe not. In fact, quite doubtfully. Ah so... Doubt a Tanya would live in a place like that Anyway might be worth asking Donald Byrd. He composed the tune! Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 The location of that Wolff photo has always intrigued me. Obviously in Paris but where exactly? Tanya's place? Tanya's Place?!? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Intrigued Parisien would like to know. Just a quip. "Tanya" was a long track on that album. So if she is a Parisian, maybe that is where they took the picture. But maybe not. In fact, quite doubtfully. Ah so... Doubt a Tanya would live in a place like that Anyway might be worth asking Donald Byrd. He composed the tune! Somehow this facade looks like one of the buildings they used to shoot Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" (the one M. Hulot lives in or one of the buildings around that marketplace). IIRC those scenes were filmed in St. Maur Les Fossés (in a part of the town that has long since been bulldozered completely). Quote
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