◇ image via WikipediaBenny Carter
Benny Carter is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Django Reinhardt, Earl Hines, Fletcher Henderson, Art Tatum and Shelly Manne. Those roots explain a lot about how Benny Carter arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Lee Konitz, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Johnny Hodges, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie and J. J. Johnson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Benny Carter, reaching back through Django Reinhardt and forward to Johnny Hodges. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Benny Carter connections
Benny Carter grew out of Django Reinhardt, Earl Hines, Fletcher Henderson and Art Tatum, shares an orbit with Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, went on to shape Johnny Hodges, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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