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Billy Taylor

Jazz
Jazz

Billy Taylor is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Eubie Blake, Bessie Smith, Oliver Nelson, Duke Ellington and Art Tatum. Those roots explain a lot about how Billy Taylor arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Jones, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington and Horace Silver, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dionne Farris, Ahmad Jamal Trio, Quincy Jones, Alphonse Mouzon and Jimmy Owens, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Billy Taylor, reaching back through Eubie Blake and forward to Dionne Farris. 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
Billy TaylorEubie BlakeBessie SmithOliver NelsonDuke EllingtonArt TatumBen WebsterBillie HolidayCharlie ParkerDionne FarrisAhmad Jamal TrioQuincy JonesAlphonse MouzonJimmy OwensNina SimoneCándido CameroDuke EllingtonHank JonesThe Ramsey Lewis TrioOscar PetersonDuke EllingtonHorace Silver

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Billy Taylor connections

Billy Taylor grew out of Eubie Blake, Bessie Smith, Oliver Nelson and Duke Ellington, shares an orbit with Hank Jones, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Oscar Peterson and Duke Ellington, went on to shape Dionne Farris, Ahmad Jamal Trio, Quincy Jones and Alphonse Mouzon. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Billy Taylor

Roots12

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