◇ image via WikipediaBéla Fleck
Béla Fleck is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Nickel Creek, Laura Veirs, Shawn Colvin, Chick Corea and Zakir Hussain. Those roots explain a lot about how Béla Fleck arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sam Bush, John Hartford, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Jerry Douglas and Alison Brown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Darol Anger, Sarah Jarosz, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, Fish and Sierra Hull, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Béla Fleck, reaching back through Nickel Creek and forward to Darol Anger. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Béla Fleck connections
Béla Fleck grew out of Nickel Creek, Laura Veirs, Shawn Colvin and Chick Corea, shares an orbit with Sam Bush, John Hartford, Alison Krauss & Union Station and Jerry Douglas, went on to shape Darol Anger, Sarah Jarosz, Bruce Hornsby & the Range and Fish. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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