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Ahmad Jamal is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ben Webster and Hank Jones. Those roots explain a lot about how Ahmad Jamal arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Wynton Kelly and Thelonious Monk, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Ahmad Jamal, reaching back through Billie Holiday and forward to Miles Davis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ahmad Jamal connections
Ahmad Jamal grew out of Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Ben Webster, shares an orbit with Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones and Wynton Kelly, went on to shape Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Cedar Walton and McCoy Tyner. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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