◇ image via WikipediaAbbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Billie Holiday, Cedar Walton and Lucky Peterson. Those roots explain a lot about how Abbey Lincoln arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Carmen McRae, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan and Stacey Kent, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Babatunde Olatunji, Gary Bartz and Cassandra Wilson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Abbey Lincoln, reaching back through Billie Holiday and forward to Babatunde Olatunji. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Abbey Lincoln connections
Abbey Lincoln grew out of Billie Holiday, Cedar Walton and Lucky Peterson, shares an orbit with Carmen McRae, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan, went on to shape Babatunde Olatunji, Gary Bartz and Cassandra Wilson. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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