◇ image via WikipediaChico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Billie Holiday, Charlie Mariano, Little Milton, Bob Klose and Lester Young. Those roots explain a lot about how Chico Hamilton arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lee Konitz, Reuben Wilson, David Axelrod, Lonnie Liston Smith and Weldon Irvine, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Thievery Corporation, Ray Mang, Sadao Watanabe, Howard Roberts and Paul Horn, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 39 connections around Chico Hamilton, reaching back through Billie Holiday and forward to Thievery Corporation. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Chico Hamilton connections
Chico Hamilton grew out of Billie Holiday, Charlie Mariano, Little Milton and Bob Klose, shares an orbit with Lee Konitz, Reuben Wilson, David Axelrod and Lonnie Liston Smith, went on to shape Thievery Corporation, Ray Mang, Sadao Watanabe and Howard Roberts. 39 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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