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Charles Mingus is a Gospel and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Pepper Adams, Take the "A" Train, Charlie Mariano, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. 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 Duke Ellington, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Deviants, Ronnie Cuber, Jimmy Owens, The Dave Brubeck Quartet and Jessica Williams, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 58 connections around Charles Mingus, reaching back through Pepper Adams and forward to The Deviants. 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 Pepper Adams, Take the "A" Train, Charlie Mariano and Charlie Parker, shares an orbit with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman, went on to shape The Deviants, Ronnie Cuber, Jimmy Owens and The Dave Brubeck Quartet. 58 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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