◇ image via WikipediaClark Terry
Clark Terry is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Johnny Griffin, Jimmy Heath, Buddy Bolden and Billy Strayhorn. Those roots explain a lot about how Clark Terry arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Benny Carter and Thad Jones, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Delmark Records, Roberta Gambarini, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis and Pat Metheny, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Clark Terry, reaching back through Johnny Griffin and forward to Delmark Records. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Clark Terry connections
Clark Terry grew out of Johnny Griffin, Jimmy Heath, Buddy Bolden and Billy Strayhorn, shares an orbit with Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley and Benny Carter, went on to shape Delmark Records, Roberta Gambarini, Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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