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Ahmet Ertegün is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Lester Young. Those roots explain a lot about how Ahmet Ertegün arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, The Drifters, The Coasters and Ray Charles, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Ahmet Ertegün, reaching back through Duke Ellington and forward to Ruth Brown. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ahmet Ertegün grew out of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, went on to shape Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, The Drifters and The Coasters. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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