◇ image via WikipediaBenny Goodman
Benny Goodman is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Phil Woods, Kid Ory, Pepper Adams, Billy Taylor and Kansas Joe McCoy. Those roots explain a lot about how Benny Goodman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa and Fats Waller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dave Grusin, Fats Navarro, Jimmy Chamberlin, Johnny Hodges and Jack Teagarden, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 56 connections around Benny Goodman, reaching back through Phil Woods and forward to Dave Grusin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Benny Goodman connections
Benny Goodman grew out of Phil Woods, Kid Ory, Pepper Adams and Billy Taylor, shares an orbit with Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Gene Krupa, went on to shape Dave Grusin, Fats Navarro, Jimmy Chamberlin and Johnny Hodges. 56 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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