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Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz
Jazz

Bix Beiderbecke is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of In the Dark, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Those roots explain a lot about how Bix Beiderbecke arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith and Count Basie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jack Teagarden, Dick Hyman and Hugh Masekela, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around Bix Beiderbecke, reaching back through In the Dark and forward to Jack Teagarden. 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
Bix BeiderbeckeIn the DarkKing OliverLouis ArmstrongClaude DebussyMaurice RavelJelly Roll MortonJack TeagardenDick HymanHugh MasekelaJelly Roll MortonFats WallerBenny GoodmanBessie SmithCount BasieDizzy GillespieDuke EllingtonChick Webb

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Bix Beiderbecke connections

Bix Beiderbecke grew out of In the Dark, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Claude Debussy, shares an orbit with Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman and Bessie Smith, went on to shape Jack Teagarden, Dick Hyman and Hugh Masekela. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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