◇ image via WikipediaCab Calloway
Cab Calloway is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Machito, Eubie Blake, Slim Gaillard, Lucky Millinder and Chick Webb. Those roots explain a lot about how Cab Calloway arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Count Basie, Chick Webb and Louis Jordan, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Brothers Moving, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Voltaire, Ahmet Ertegün and Billy Eckstine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Cab Calloway, reaching back through Machito and forward to Brothers Moving. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Cab Calloway connections
Cab Calloway grew out of Machito, Eubie Blake, Slim Gaillard and Lucky Millinder, shares an orbit with Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Count Basie and Chick Webb, went on to shape Brothers Moving, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Voltaire and Ahmet Ertegün. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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