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Bobby Timmons is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and Art Blakey. Those roots explain a lot about how Bobby Timmons arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ramsey Lewis, Les McCann, Ron Carter, Oscar Brown Jr. and Albert Heath, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Bobby Timmons, reaching back through Ahmad Jamal and forward to Ramsey Lewis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively.
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Bobby Timmons grew out of Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and Art Blakey, shares an orbit with Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Ramsey Lewis, Les McCann, Ron Carter and Oscar Brown Jr.. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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