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Charles Mingus is a Gospel and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Charlie Mariano, Rudy Van Gelder, Pepper Adams, Take the "A" Train and Charlie Parker. Those roots explain a lot about how Charles Mingus arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman and Oliver Nelson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nicolas Jaar, The Deviants, Ronnie Cuber, Jimmy Owens and The Dave Brubeck Quartet, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 60 connections around Charles Mingus, reaching back through Charlie Mariano and forward to Nicolas Jaar. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Charles Mingus connections
Charles Mingus grew out of Charlie Mariano, Rudy Van Gelder, Pepper Adams and Take the "A" Train, shares an orbit with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman, went on to shape Nicolas Jaar, The Deviants, Ronnie Cuber and Jimmy Owens. 60 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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