◇ image via WikipediaBobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin is a Classical and Jazz act. Their catalogue also touches World music. Their sound grew out of Urszula Dudziak, Michael Brecker, Richard Bona, Kathleen Battle and Andreas Vollenweider. Those roots explain a lot about how Bobby McFerrin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Marcus Miller, Take 6, Eva Cassidy, Madeleine Peyroux and Chick Corea, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Tony Williams, Quincy Jones, The Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis and George Martin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 50 connections around Bobby McFerrin, reaching back through Urszula Dudziak and forward to Tony Williams. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bobby McFerrin connections
Bobby McFerrin grew out of Urszula Dudziak, Michael Brecker, Richard Bona and Kathleen Battle, shares an orbit with Marcus Miller, Take 6, Eva Cassidy and Madeleine Peyroux, went on to shape Tony Williams, Quincy Jones, The Manhattan Transfer and Wynton Marsalis. 50 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Bobby McFerrin
Sounds and acts that shaped Bobby McFerrin.
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- Chick Coreaartist
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Bands Bobby McFerrin shaped
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- Marina Sattiartist
- Madison McFerrinartist
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