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Chaz Jankel is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sly and the Family Stone. Those roots explain a lot about how Chaz Jankel arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Skyy, Imagination, Loose Joints, Change and Escort, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Rhythms Del Mundo, Uniting Nations, Shift K3Y and Quincy Jones, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Chaz Jankel, reaching back through Sly and the Family Stone and forward to Rhythms Del Mundo. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Charles Jeremy "Chaz" Jankel is an English musician and songwriter. In a music career spanning more than 50 years, he came to prominence in the late 1970s as the guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. With Dury, Jankel co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs including "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3".
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Chaz Jankel connections
Chaz Jankel grew out of Sly and the Family Stone, shares an orbit with Skyy, Imagination, Loose Joints and Change, went on to shape Rhythms Del Mundo, Uniting Nations, Shift K3Y and Quincy Jones. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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