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Archie Shepp is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Baaba Maal, Res, Benny Golson, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman. Those roots explain a lot about how Archie Shepp arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Sharrock and Miles Davis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Deserted Palace, Jimmy Giuffre, A. G. Cook, Material and Interior Music, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Archie Shepp, reaching back through Baaba Maal and forward to Deserted Palace. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Archie Shepp connections
Archie Shepp grew out of Baaba Maal, Res, Benny Golson and Cecil Taylor, shares an orbit with Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Sonny Sharrock, went on to shape Deserted Palace, Jimmy Giuffre, A. G. Cook and Material. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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