Rooster_Ties Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 Includes one-word nicknames... Miles Trane Monk Ornette Tolliver Herbie Pops Duke Gotta be hundreds more... Don't know where this is going, but this thought (and thread topic) occured to me as I was typing various names into the eBay search engine. I mean, you really don't ever need to type "Ornette Coleman", since there ain't gonna be no hits on "Ornette" that don't apply to the Ornette. I also thought of this when my wife chided me for refering to so many jazz musicians by just their first name, as if I knew them personally. (Me: "Herbie this", and "Chick" that, and - well you get the idea.) In some ways, it's kind of like an 'insiders code', between jazz fans - when you don't need to mention full names in order to be completely understood. Ever meet somebody for the very first time, find out that they're a jazz fan with some reasonably semi-deep knowlege of the music - and instantly start talking about common musical interests, using the shorthand names (either just the first name, or last - whichever more uniquely identifies the artist in question), that we all know and love?? And, how easy that is to do, without even giving it a second thought?? Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 12, 2003 Author Report Posted April 12, 2003 (edited) Unfortunately, one of my personal favorites doesn't have a unique enough first or last name to do this with... Joe Henderson (Several other Joe's and a couple Henderson's too.) ===== And then there's poor, poor Bill Evans (both of them!!) - neither one of them has a unique first/last name combination!!! ( ) Edited April 12, 2003 by Rooster_Ties Quote
John Tapscott Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 The Count (well, that's two). Hank Bags JJ Fatha Bud (for me at least, that would be the one and only Bud Powell) Buddy (for the drummin' man) Hamp Fats Cannonball Quote
Michael Fitzgerald Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 Waller or Navarro? Diz Dizley? Dizzy Reece? Hank Crawford? Duke Pearson? Meredith Monk? Monk Montgomery? Buddy Miles? Come on, we need some REAL distinctive names: Dusko, Sirone, Muhal, Airto, Avishai, Santi, Tootie, Olatunji, Hannibal, Patato, Cachao, Varty, NHØP, Åke, Vijay, Urbie, Paquito, Jiggs, Grady, Cedar, Muruga, Badal, Nana..... Mike (not even close) Quote
doubleM Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 Jaco Thad Bu Chet Mingus Lee Max Freddie God (though I doubt if people called A.Tatum this all that much) Kenny (though these days people might think of G.) Quote
pryan Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 Lee Freddie Konitz or Morgan? Hubbard or Roach or Redd or ....? Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted April 13, 2003 Report Posted April 13, 2003 Just to make it personal: Roscoe, Bowie, Muhal, Braxton, Threadgill, Favors, Warne, Jarman, Von, Lucky, Bradford, Wadada, Mars, etc. Quote
BeBop Posted April 13, 2003 Report Posted April 13, 2003 Satch Jaws Zutty Baby Chet Gerry Griff Dolphy Newk Vice-Pres PC G-Man How about a few that leave one guessing: Sonny? Red? Quote
RonF Posted April 13, 2003 Report Posted April 13, 2003 Sassy (Sarah) Ella Carmen Billie Bessie Count Toots Quote
brownie Posted April 13, 2003 Report Posted April 13, 2003 Cab Elvin Chu Dodo Lucky (should be Unlucky) Clifford Django Pee Wee Chano Gato Bunny Quote
sidewinder Posted April 13, 2003 Report Posted April 13, 2003 Tubby Fathead Big Bill Little Jazz Quote
Stan C Posted April 13, 2003 Report Posted April 13, 2003 Jug Satchmo Slide Brute Judge Rabbit Josh Mex Stuff Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 14, 2003 Author Report Posted April 14, 2003 The great thing about Ornette, is that you can type just "Ornette" into Allmusic (and hit search), and it'll take you directly to his entry. Doesn't even give you a big list of names to choose from that all match somewhat. Ornette really is an original!!! Quote
EKE BBB Posted April 14, 2003 Report Posted April 14, 2003 (edited) Pops Pops Foster or Pops/Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) ? -Tete -Toshiko -Chu -Cab -Big Sid -Lockjaw -Jelly Roll -Bix -Tootie -The lion -Lux -Mezz -Tricky Sam -Cootie -Bubber -Fathead -Hot lips -Ma Edited April 14, 2003 by EKE BBB Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 Do you mean Ish, uncle of Sigourney Weaver? Quote
Brad Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 The one name that came to mind that could cause confusion, which somebody mentioned, is Sonny. There's 3 that come to mind, Rollins, Stitt and Clark. Which one comes to your mind first? To me, it's Stitt, but objectively, it's probably Rollins and probably no one would think of Sonny Clark. Quote
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