◇ image via WikipediaDexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Al Foster, Daniel Humair, Lester Young, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Those roots explain a lot about how Dexter Gordon arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Coleman Hawkins, Horace Silver and Wayne Shorter, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Aldo Romano, Howard Roberts, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Dexter Gordon, reaching back through Al Foster and forward to Aldo Romano. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dexter Gordon connections
Dexter Gordon grew out of Al Foster, Daniel Humair, Lester Young and John Coltrane, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Coleman Hawkins and Horace Silver, went on to shape Aldo Romano, Howard Roberts, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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