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Benny Goodman

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Jazz

Benny Goodman is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Pepper Adams, Billy Taylor, Kansas Joe McCoy, Bob Wills and Malcolm Arnold. Those roots explain a lot about how Benny Goodman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, Peggy Lee and Coleman Hawkins, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Toots Thielemans, Johnny Hodges, Jack Teagarden, Paquito D'Rivera and John Dankworth, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 52 connections around Benny Goodman, reaching back through Pepper Adams and forward to Toots Thielemans. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Benny GoodmanPepper AdamsBilly TaylorKansas Joe McCoyBob WillsMalcolm ArnoldBoogieLouis PrimaFletcher HendersonToots ThielemansJohnny HodgesJack TeagardenPaquito D'RiveraJohn DankworthBuddy DeFrancoSunshine of Your LoveDelmark RecordsCount BasieDuke EllingtonGene KrupaPeggy LeeColeman HawkinsDjango ReinhardtLouis JordanBenny Carter

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Benny Goodman connections

Benny Goodman grew out of Pepper Adams, Billy Taylor, Kansas Joe McCoy and Bob Wills, shares an orbit with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa and Peggy Lee, went on to shape Toots Thielemans, Johnny Hodges, Jack Teagarden and Paquito D'Rivera. 52 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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