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Dave Grusin is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Bill Evans, Jerry Goldsmith and Herb Alpert. Those roots explain a lot about how Dave Grusin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lee Ritenour, George Benson, Nathan East, Brian Culbertson and Marcus Miller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Stephen Bishop, Paul Simon, James Taylor and Jon Schmidt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Dave Grusin, reaching back through Benny Goodman and forward to Stephen Bishop. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dave Grusin connections
Dave Grusin grew out of Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Bill Evans and Jerry Goldsmith, shares an orbit with Lee Ritenour, George Benson, Nathan East and Brian Culbertson, went on to shape Stephen Bishop, Paul Simon, James Taylor and Jon Schmidt. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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