How do you pronounce "kai" winding?
Brutus4633
Help!!
How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
Ed Purcell
brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633) writes:
>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
>the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
On radio I've heard Kai pronounced like "pie."
Paul R.
On Sep 05, 1996 10:40:23 in article <How do you pronounce "kai" winding?>,
'brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633)' wrote:
>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
>the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
Have always heard it as "Kay." Especially when Winding was working with
J.J. Johnson and they were known universally as "J & K" rather than "J &
K(ai)" Why does it matter now?
Paul R
ChKelsey
I think it's pronounced "Mr. Smokestoomuch".
Mark S Fraser
Brutus4633 (brutu...@aol.com) writes:
> Help!!
>
> How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
> the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
how do you pron厕c鶺薿un蹿v耤e him last name?
--
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Jebediah Springfield
2 jazz pagans
>On Sep 05, 1996 10:40:23 in article <How do you pronounce "kai"
winding?>,
>'brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633)' wrote:
>
from the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
He was born in Denmark, and the Danes pronounce it like "Pie." But then
again, is it Winn-ding or Wine-ding? The former, I believe.
- JRB
Jack Woker
In <50moon$n...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633)
writes:
>
>Help!!
>
>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie
>from the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
I've always assumed it was "Kay", since he and J.J. Johnson used to
have a group together called "Jai and Kai", and it seems unlikely that
they would have pronounced it "Jye and Kye" (unless they were cockneys,
of course :-)
jack
Dirk Ludigkeit
brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633) wrote:
>Help!!
>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
>the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
Jiekes...
Maybe some Danish contributor to this NG will eventually come up with
the definitive answer to this one, but as German isn't too terribly
different phonectically from Danish, I'd go for "Kie" (If my
linguistics professor sees this, he'll be raving mad...; I guess I
should write /kai/, but that wouldn't clarify anything for the
uninitiated, right?). Winding might have %6eg*#öüßp= his name to suit
American standards of pronunciation; many people have to. It's just
terribly annoying to repeat your name over vand over just because it
sounds differently in your native tongue than in theirs
"Jay and Kai", of course, reads "Jay and Kay", as it's a rather
stupid pun on initials and phony phonetic notation.
And it should be "Winn-ding" (maybe the family should sue Bill Gates
for corrupting the name to denominate Windows fonts?).
Dirk (last name: Ludigkeit. Now there's a tough one...)
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http://www.public.uni-augsburg.de/~ludigkei/pantheon.htm
Ralph Jungheim
On 5 Sep 96 19:21:47 GMT, pur...@Avian.CAD.UCLA.EDU (Ed Purcell)
wrote:
>brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633) writes:
>
>>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
>>the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
>
>On radio I've heard Kai pronounced like "pie."
>
The "Kay" pronunciation was strictly for business purposes, when he
was working wih J.J. Like "pie" is correct.
Mark S Fraser
Mark S Fraser (cj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
> Brutus4633 (brutu...@aol.com) writes:
>> Help!!
>>
>> How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie from
>> the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
> how do you pron厕c鶺薿un蹿v耤e him last name?
>
sorry about that! It's supposed to be how do you pronounce his last name.
Loudon Briggs
gal...@ix.netcom.com(2 jazz pagans ) wrote:
>>On Sep 05, 1996 10:40:23 in article <How do you pronounce "kai"
>winding?>,
>>'brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633)' wrote:
>>
>>>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie
>from the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
>He was born in Denmark, and the Danes pronounce it like "Pie." But then
>again, is it Winn-ding or Wine-ding? The former, I believe.
>- JRB
Forty years ago, J.J. and Kai played the old Blue Note in Chicago and
this subject came up in the club. The amusing catalyst was an earlier
appearance on a local radio show by Kai. The local columns made much
of the fact that the well known host, not knowing anything about his
guest, introduced him as "the lovely 'Kay' Winding."
As I recall the conversation, he did not discourage it being
pronounced as Kay in order to rhyme with J.J. but in reality, it was
Kai, as in "pie." The last name was definitely pronounced as
Winn-ding... and he was one!!
By the way Jim, the new needle is in and the process will start soon.
Take care all...
--
Loudon Briggs (lar...@indirect.com Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
John Monroe
On 6 Sep 1996, 2 jazz pagans wrote:
> >On Sep 05, 1996 10:40:23 in article <How do you pronounce "kai"
> winding?>,
> >'brutu...@aol.com (Brutus4633)' wrote:
> >
> >>How do you pronounce Kai Winding's first name? Is it Kay, like Connie
> from the MJQ or "Kie" like Pie?
>
> He was born in Denmark, and the Danes pronounce it like "Pie." But then
> again, is it Winn-ding or Wine-ding? The former, I believe.
>
> - JRB
I don't know. Once on the radio I announced his name as "Kie" (like pie)
"Winn-ding" and got prompt calls from several local Jazz fans who, unlike
me, were alive at a time when one actually heard this trombonist's name
spoken fairly frequently. Apparently, they claimed, his name is
pronounced "Kay Wine-ding".
This pronunciation makes more sense to me, because it explains why the
combo he co-led with J.J. Johnson was called "Jay and Kai". If you
pronounce his name "Kay", the band name is a deliciously corny
fifties-style pun: "J and K". If you call the group "Jay and Kie", on
the other hand, it's just an un-catchy, rather obvious listing of the two
front men.
So there's my hypothesis, based on anthropological fieldwork and careful
historico-linguistic research.
John.
tsse...@gmail.com
At least I've found a number of guesses. He and Johnson were kind enough
to record a tune of mine many years ago ("Dont' Go Love, Don't Go') and I
was never able to find out how in the world they even knew about the tune.
It had been recorded and released on 45rpm (yes, that long ago) by Cleo
Laine. Out of respect I always wanted to know how to pronounce his name.
From the many guesses here, I'm going with Pie and Winn, that is, Ki Winnding,
forever settling the matter, right or wrong. =)