◇ image via WikipediaBud Powell
Bud Powell is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Oscar Pettiford, Rudy Van Gelder, Curtis Fuller, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Those roots explain a lot about how Bud Powell arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly, Hank Mobley, Hank Jones and Wayne Shorter, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Alice Coltrane, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Bud Powell, reaching back through Oscar Pettiford and forward to Chick Corea. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bud Powell connections
Bud Powell grew out of Oscar Pettiford, Rudy Van Gelder, Curtis Fuller and Charlie Parker, shares an orbit with Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly, Hank Mobley and Hank Jones, went on to shape Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Art Blakey and Horace Silver. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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