◇ image via WikipediaBetty Carter
Betty Carter is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Peacock Records, Eric Harland, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Those roots explain a lot about how Betty Carter arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington and Lorez Alexandria, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lonnie Liston Smith, Idris Muhammad, Irakere and Karriem Riggins, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Betty Carter, reaching back through Peacock Records and forward to Cécile McLorin Salvant. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Betty Carter connections
Betty Carter grew out of Peacock Records, Eric Harland, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, shares an orbit with Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Abbey Lincoln and Dinah Washington, went on to shape Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lonnie Liston Smith, Idris Muhammad and Irakere. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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