◇ image via WikipediaAhmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Hank Jones, Jimmy Heath, Earl Hines, Billy Strayhorn and Mary Lou Williams. 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, Thelonious Monk and Hank Mobley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nicolas Jaar, Bill Evans, Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Ahmad Jamal, reaching back through Hank Jones and forward to Nicolas Jaar. 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 Hank Jones, Jimmy Heath, Earl Hines and Billy Strayhorn, shares an orbit with Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones and Thelonious Monk, went on to shape Nicolas Jaar, Bill Evans, Cedar Walton and McCoy Tyner. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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