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Art Tatum is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines and Mary Lou Williams. Those roots explain a lot about how Art Tatum arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Trio, Eddie Bo, Teddy Wilson and Billy Strayhorn, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 44 connections around Art Tatum, reaching back through Fats Waller and forward to Oscar Peterson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Art Tatum connections
Art Tatum grew out of Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines and Mary Lou Williams, shares an orbit with Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Thelonious Monk, went on to shape Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Trio, Eddie Bo and Teddy Wilson. 44 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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