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Anita O'Day

Jazz
Jazz

Anita O'Day is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie and Patti Page. Those roots explain a lot about how Anita O'Day arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dinah Washington, Lorez Alexandria, June Christy, Carmen McRae and Peggy Lee, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Elysian Fields, Mark Murphy, June Christy and Sacred Spirit, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Anita O'Day, reaching back through Gene Krupa and forward to Elysian Fields. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Anita O'DayGene KrupaStan KentonWoody HermanCount BasiePatti PageOscar PetersonDuke EllingtonBenny GoodmanElysian FieldsMark MurphyJune ChristySacred SpiritDinah WashingtonLorez AlexandriaJune ChristyCarmen McRaePeggy LeeNancy WilsonBetty CarterAbbey Lincoln

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Anita O'Day connections

Anita O'Day grew out of Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman and Count Basie, shares an orbit with Dinah Washington, Lorez Alexandria, June Christy and Carmen McRae, went on to shape Elysian Fields, Mark Murphy, June Christy and Sacred Spirit. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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