I would love to hear some of the recordings from his trio. Is that really Andre's dad on bass?

SPYZFAN1 said:

I would love to hear some of the recordings from his trio. Is that really Andre's dad on bass?

Yes, that's Fred Anderson. Andre recently did an interview, and talked about this picture.

purplepoppy said:

PeteSilas said:

saw it, he didn't sound all that southern really, i mean, igrew up around some people from the deep south and they definitely sounded different. I wouldn't say he sounded as urbane as the jazz men i've known though either.

When will people ever get that The South is not just one accent? Same as The North. Sheesh! ever heard Allen Toussaint? He's from the "deep south".

Exactly. I'm from the mid-south, and it's vastly different than Texas, or Lousiana, or Alabama, etc. There is no one hick southern accent that everyone thinks of.

The sax player is Eddie M's dad !!!

Thanks Trivial...Wow...Andre looks just like him! That's so cool that P and Andre followed in the footsteps together.

Eddie M's dad??!!

SPYZFAN1 said:

Eddie M's dad??!!

No. Release your leg from his grips.

TrivialPursuit said:

purplepoppy said:

When will people ever get that The South is not just one accent? Same as The North. Sheesh! ever heard Allen Toussaint? He's from the "deep south".

Exactly. I'm from the mid-south, and it's vastly different than Texas, or Lousiana, or Alabama, etc. There is no one hick southern accent that everyone thinks of.

I noticed that too, some people from the south don't sound as southern. My black stepdad was from Louisiana and even though he left at 5, he still held onto a lot of the old sayings and i'm sure being around first generation northerners affected that too. But I grew up knowing people who would say "put it rightchere" and stuff, that's what i was curious if John L sounded like. I miss the old folks to tell the truth, and that is to say the black folks I grew up around and also my own old indian people. the new generations are nothing like them.

PeteSilas said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Exactly. I'm from the mid-south, and it's vastly different than Texas, or Lousiana, or Alabama, etc. There is no one hick southern accent that everyone thinks of.

I noticed that too, some people from the south don't sound as southern. My black stepdad was from Louisiana and even though he left at 5, he still held onto a lot of the old sayings and i'm sure being around first generation northerners affected that too. But I grew up knowing people who would say "put it rightchere" and stuff, that's what i was curious if John L sounded like. I miss the old folks to tell the truth, and that is to say the black folks I grew up around and also my own old indian people. the new generations are nothing like them.

There´s also a place in the South were they still speak a form of English that is very close to old British English because they stayed there among themselves and never left that area . If I recall correctly it is close to South Carolina.

Regional accents and dialects exist everywhere... My father had a thick regional accent, my siblings and I less so, and my nephews (born and raised in the same area) not at all.

purplethunder3121 said:

Regional accents and dialects exist everywhere... My father had a thick regional accent, my siblings and I less so, and my nephews (born and raised in the same area) not at all.

i've never completely lost the accent i picked up from being around black people and Indian people. sometimes people can't place it.

KoolEaze said:

PeteSilas said:

I noticed that too, some people from the south don't sound as southern. My black stepdad was from Louisiana and even though he left at 5, he still held onto a lot of the old sayings and i'm sure being around first generation northerners affected that too. But I grew up knowing people who would say "put it rightchere" and stuff, that's what i was curious if John L sounded like. I miss the old folks to tell the truth, and that is to say the black folks I grew up around and also my own old indian people. the new generations are nothing like them.

There´s also a place in the South were they still speak a form of English that is very close to old British English because they stayed there among themselves and never left that area . If I recall correctly it is close to South Carolina.

those are the Gullah people ..or "Geechies"...they speak an Old English & Creole mix... my wife is from Charleston SC, and she is of these people

RJOrion said:

KoolEaze said:

There´s also a place in the South were they still speak a form of English that is very close to old British English because they stayed there among themselves and never left that area . If I recall correctly it is close to South Carolina.

those are the Gullah people ..or "Geechies"...they speak an Old English & Creole mix... my wife is from Charleston SC, and she is of these people

ya, my best friends people are gullah too, funny thing is, i'd tell him about the soul food my father loved and he'd ridicule it saying his folks didn't eat that backwards stuff. When i watched Django, samuel jackson had every nuance of the older folks down, every inflection, will come a time when the newer generations won't be able to do that.

RJOrion said:

KoolEaze said:

There´s also a place in the South were they still speak a form of English that is very close to old British English because they stayed there among themselves and never left that area . If I recall correctly it is close to South Carolina.

those are the Gullah people ..or "Geechies"...they speak an Old English & Creole mix... my wife is from Charleston SC, and she is of these people

My friend who passed on last year was "Geechie." She was very proud of her heritage.