This week’s and next week’s episode focuses on right and wrong ways to pronounce the names of certain jazz artists. I demonstrate lots of mis-pronunciations, then try to correct them.

And it gives me an excuse to play some great music, by the likes of Paul Motian,Delfaeo Marsalis, Jackie McLean, Gerry Beaudoin (w. Duke Robillard & J. Geils), Brian Auger & The Trinity, Laurindo Almeida with Charlie Byrd, and Sunna Gunnlaugs with Verneri Pohjola. Some of the great music is by Canadian artists: Doug Riley w. Claude Ranger, Caity Gyorgy, and Jane Bunnett & Maqueque.

Also, in case you fear you’re going to be ‘shamed’ for your mispronunciations, I talk a lot about my own embarrassing mispronunciation moments.