◇ image via WikipediaArt Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Fletcher Henderson, Billy Eckstine, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Those roots explain a lot about how Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver and Miles Davis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bobby Timmons, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, reaching back through Fletcher Henderson and forward to Bobby Timmons. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers connections
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers grew out of Fletcher Henderson, Billy Eckstine, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Horace Silver, went on to shape Bobby Timmons, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis and Freddie Hubbard. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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