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

[marcoliv]

just a quick note about Airto Moreira and the eye-ear-toe thing

the A on this case does not sound like "eye" and the "toe" is incorrect too.

i'm attaching a wav file with the correct sound as i know a little bit of portuguese

Marcus

[robviti]

just a quick note about Airto Moreira and the eye-ear-toe thing

the A on this case does not sound like "eye" and the "toe" is incorrect too.

i'm attaching a wav file with the correct sound as i know a little bit of portuguese

Marcus

to my ears, the speaker in the clip you provided is pronoucning it as eye-air-toe.

[Daniel A]

I agree with Marcus that it would be a stretch to say it sounds like "eye" and "toe". I'm not really good at English phonetic transcription, but how about "Ah-ihr-tooh"?

And "the speaker in the clip" - might I guess that it is señor Marcus himself?

[ghost of miles]

Mike Mainieri? (Vibraphonist on some of the Buddy Rich Mosaic set... love his playing, although I understand he later traveled a rather commercial path.)

[JSngry]

main-ee-AIR-ee?

Commercial, yes, but tasty commercial. I think I prefer his "commercial" prodction work (like Carly simon's Torch and "fusion" playing (Steps Ahead in particular) to his "straight ahead" playing.

If you find your voice, go where it leads you no matter what, dig?

[birdanddizzy]

main-ee-AIR-ee?

I second that.

Or I would guess : "May-ain-AIR-ee", that's what we would say, here in France...

[ghost of miles]

DJ friend of mine writes:

“main---------------near----------------------ee” That’s the way Buddy pronounced it anyway.

Hey Jim, I hear ya--I'll have to check out the later records. I remember a biographer once quoting an exchange between a journalist and a scholar--referring to a certain poet, the journalist asked, "But isn't he sentimental?" and the scholar said, "Well, yes, but that's his inspiration. If he weren't sentimental, he wouldn't be a poet." Or something like that.

[JSngry]

Yeah, I'm really starting to get sick (and tired!) of stuff getting dissed simply because of what it is. Not for how well is is or isn't what it is, but simply because it is what it is. Such presumptiveness to presume that there is only one (or just a few) ways to be "great" or "beautiful" or (even) "hip"!

It's a big freakin' world, ya'know, and there's probably more beauty and happiness in it than we realize (a lot of it on the "small" side, sure, but a lot of smalls can add up to one big, if you let it...), simply because we're more concerned with trying to get appreciation than with showing it. That's a dead end street as far as I'm concerned, and it's really something I've been examining within myself lately.

Easier said than done, I know, but that's just the way that shit goes...

[marcoliv]

I agree with Marcus that it would be a stretch to say it sounds like "eye" and "toe". I'm not really good at English phonetic transcription, but how about "Ah-ihr-tooh"?

And "the speaker in the clip" - might I guess that it is señor Marcus himself?

yeah, it's me...nice voice isn't it?

i can guarantee that eye-ear-toe is far from the correct pronounciation in portuguese

Marcus

[ghost of miles]

Oscar Castro-Neves? (just the last part)

Nico Assumpcao? (bassist)

[Harold_Z]

Oscar Castro-Neves? (just the last part)

Neh-vez

Nico Assumpcao? (bassist)

Ah-sump-cow

[marcoliv]

me again!

Ah-sump-cow is not good specially the "cow" sound because the correct spelling is Assunção

Neh-vez makes Neves to sound too spanish which is not accurate too

i'll post later a wav file with both names

Marcus

Edited May 18, 2006 by marcoliv

[RDK]

Yeah, I'm really starting to get sick (and tired!) of stuff getting dissed simply because of what it is. Not for how well is is or isn't what it is, but simply because it is what it is. Such presumptiveness to presume that there is only one (or just a few) ways to be "great" or "beautiful" or (even) "hip"!

It's a big freakin' world, ya'know, and there's probably more beauty and happiness in it than we realize (a lot of it on the "small" side, sure, but a lot of smalls can add up to one big, if you let it...), simply because we're more concerned with trying to get appreciation than with showing it. That's a dead end street as far as I'm concerned, and it's really something I've been examining within myself lately.

Easier said than done, I know, but that's just the way that shit goes...

That said, I still dislike Kenny G. But i will fight to the, um, discomfort my father's right to listen to it if he so desires. Unless I'm actually in the same room hearing it as well...

[birdanddizzy]

How do you pronouce Elek Bacsik ?

Just curious to see what you would propose

[marcoliv]

Ghost,

here is the correct pronounciation for Oscar Castro-Neves

MCO

[marcoliv]

now for the great bass player Nico Assunção

Marcus

[ghost of miles]

Marcoliv, thank you much. This is an extremely useful thread for a jazz announcer... here's another one for the Organissimo experts:

Onaje Allan Gumbs?

[Chas]

Marcoliv, thank you much. This is an extremely useful thread for a jazz announcer... here's another one for the Organissimo experts:

Onaje Allan Gumbs?

Oh-Nah-Jay

[ghost of miles]

Thanks! And yet another...

Gabor Szabo.

[Stereojack]

Thanks! And yet another...

Gabor Szabo.

ga-BORE ZAH-bo

[AllenLowe]

Charlie Smith -

[AllenLowe]

sorry I'm a little late to this but I actually had a few conversations with Melle when I was working on my book - he did pronounce it as May-Lay - but maybe this is old news -

[AllenLowe]

and I don't know if this has come up, but I was once told that Phineas Newborn said his first name as "Fine-us"

[AllenLowe]

and how about Chuck Nessa? Last name rhymes with Mess-a? I have honestly never heard anyone say his name out loud, I've only seen it on a thousand recordings -

[AllenLowe]

and than there is Stereo Jacques - the French guy who sells LPs on the Champs Elysee -