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Brad Mehldau is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Renée Fleming, John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett and Wynton Kelly. Those roots explain a lot about how Brad Mehldau arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Chick Corea, Bill Evans and Robert Glasper, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dick Lövgren, Scott Weiland, Joshua Redman, Renée Fleming and Pat Metheny, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Brad Mehldau, reaching back through Renée Fleming and forward to Dick Lövgren. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Brad Mehldau connections
Brad Mehldau grew out of Renée Fleming, John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson and Keith Jarrett, shares an orbit with Chick Corea, Bill Evans and Robert Glasper, went on to shape Dick Lövgren, Scott Weiland, Joshua Redman and Renée Fleming. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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