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

[Big Beat Steve]

Like Jaki BYE-ARD and similar to Don BYE-AS.

[AndrewHill]

Have I been mis-pronouncing Donald Byrd's name all this time? Is it Bird or By-erd?

[umum_cypher]

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'.

[BruceH]

Have I been mis-pronouncing Donald Byrd's name all this time? Is it Bird or By-erd?

I always thought it was "Bird."

[J.A.W.]

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.

[Guest Bill Barton]

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

[tkeith]

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?

[rostasi]

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

[Guest Bill Barton]

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...

[Chalupa]

Bert Jansch??

[Chalupa]

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}}}

[Stonewall15]

Bob Zieff? Like "life" or "leaf"? I can handle Bob.

[Niko]

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...)

[Rosco]

Probably completely obvious, but you never know....

Jutta Hipp?

[Niko]

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)

[Big Beat Steve]

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".

[ghost of miles]

Bassist John Neves' last name?

[Rosco]

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...

[AllenLowe]

John Neves sounds as a short e - I met him a few times in Boston in the '70s.

[aparxa]

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.

[jazztrain]

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?

[ghost of miles]

The name of the vocal group the Treniers?

[Harold_Z]

The TRENN-EARS

Edited February 5, 2010 by Harold_Z

[Chuck Nessa]

[ghost of miles]

Ken Nordine's last name? Nor-DEEN or Nor-DINE?