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Billy Taylor

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Jazz

Billy Taylor is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bessie Smith, Eubie Blake, 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 Wynton Kelly, Hank Jones, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Oscar Peterson and Duke Ellington, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bill Evans, Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal Trio, Quincy Jones and Alphonse Mouzon, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Billy Taylor, reaching back through Bessie Smith and forward to Bill Evans. 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 TaylorBessie SmithEubie BlakeOliver NelsonDuke EllingtonArt TatumBen WebsterBillie HolidayCharlie ParkerBill EvansNancy WilsonAhmad Jamal TrioQuincy JonesAlphonse MouzonJimmy OwensNina SimoneCándido CameroWynton KellyHank JonesThe Ramsey Lewis TrioOscar PetersonDuke EllingtonHorace SilverBobby Timmons

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Billy Taylor connections

Billy Taylor grew out of Bessie Smith, Eubie Blake, Oliver Nelson and Duke Ellington, shares an orbit with Wynton Kelly, Hank Jones, The Ramsey Lewis Trio and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Bill Evans, Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal Trio and Quincy Jones. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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