◇ image via WikipediaBilly Strayhorn
Billy Strayhorn is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Mary Lou Williams, Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson. Those roots explain a lot about how Billy Strayhorn arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bobby Timmons, Abbey Lincoln, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Clark Terry, Randy Weston, Ahmad Jamal, Lena Horne and Ben Webster, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Billy Strayhorn, reaching back through Erroll Garner and forward to Clark Terry. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Billy Strayhorn connections
Billy Strayhorn grew out of Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum, shares an orbit with Bobby Timmons, Abbey Lincoln, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, went on to shape Clark Terry, Randy Weston, Ahmad Jamal and Lena Horne. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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