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Chet Baker

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Jazz

Chet Baker is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Elvis Costello, Daniel Humair, Andy Bey, Elvis Costello & The Attractions and Caterina Valente. Those roots explain a lot about how Chet Baker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bill Evans, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery and Sarah Vaughan, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ed Lincoln, Canned Heat, Laufey, The Dave Brubeck Quartet and Chris Whitley, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 59 connections around Chet Baker, reaching back through Elvis Costello and forward to Ed Lincoln. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Chet BakerElvis CostelloDaniel HumairAndy BeyElvis Costello & The…Caterina ValenteDave BrubeckDizzy GillespieStan KentonEd LincolnCanned HeatLaufeyThe Dave Brubeck Qua…Chris WhitleyKing KruleJarre in ChinaInterior MusicBill EvansThe Dave Brubeck Qua…Miles DavisWes MontgomerySarah VaughanOscar PetersonColeman HawkinsLee Konitz

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Chet Baker connections

Chet Baker grew out of Elvis Costello, Daniel Humair, Andy Bey and Elvis Costello & The Attractions, shares an orbit with Bill Evans, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery, went on to shape Ed Lincoln, Canned Heat, Laufey and The Dave Brubeck Quartet. 59 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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