[Dixielandjazz] Something useful for jazz radio DJ?

[David Richoux]

http://www.wwuh.org/program/music/jazz/jazz%20pronunciation%20guide.htm

> The Ever-Controversial WWUH Jazz
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> Pronunciation Guide
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> INTRODUCTION by J.O. Spaak, Sole Editor and Lightning Rod for  
> Controversy
> NOTE: This Introduction was originally written when this Guide was  
> being offered to jazz radio programmers in a now defunct effort to  
> build an online jazz programmer community. The Guide is now offered  
> to anyone interested. It will likely never be updated, so here it  
> is, "for the Ages." --J.O. Spaak, former 'UH Jazz Director, May 2002
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> As serious jazz  people, we probably all get irritated when we hear  
> a radio
> announcer lacking jazz experience inform us that we were just  
> listening to
> "Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers" or "violinist Stephanie  
> Grappelli". This
> kind of error is as much a result of being a lazy or inattentive  
> reader,
> obviously, as being inexperienced in jazz. This Guide does not  
> pretend to be able to cure that problem. And, it's very obvious  
> that it will be of no help when one is sitting before an open mic,  
> reading the personnel from a recording not
> encountered before, and discovering an equally "foreign" name  
> (foreign in
> quotes because it may very well be a name from the English-bred  
> world).
> However, if one plans to do a special segment spotlighting the  
> music of
> someone you've long admired, but dreaded pronouncing the name, it  
> may be of
> some modest aid to you.
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anyway - it may be useful (or good for a laugh ;-)



Dave Richoux