◇ image via WikipediaCharlie Parker
Charlie Parker is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Billy Eckstine, Neal Hefti, Jay McShann, Slim Gaillard and Ray Barretto. Those roots explain a lot about how Charlie Parker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Buddy Miles, Anthony Braxton, Mickey Baker, Lonnie Liston Smith and Dick Morrissey, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 115 connections around Charlie Parker, reaching back through Billy Eckstine and forward to Buddy Miles. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Charlie Parker connections
Charlie Parker grew out of Billy Eckstine, Neal Hefti, Jay McShann and Slim Gaillard, shares an orbit with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, went on to shape Buddy Miles, Anthony Braxton, Mickey Baker and Lonnie Liston Smith. 115 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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