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Dianne Reeves is a Contemporary R&B and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Michael Brecker, Noel Pointer, Clark Terry, Oscar Brown Jr. and Stanley Turrentine. Those roots explain a lot about how Dianne Reeves arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Carmen McRae, Madeleine Peyroux, Abbey Lincoln, Nancy Wilson and Natalie Cole, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Charnett Moffett, Zara McFarlane, Dinah Washington, Carmen McRae and Patti Austin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Dianne Reeves, reaching back through Michael Brecker and forward to Charnett Moffett. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dianne Reeves connections
Dianne Reeves grew out of Michael Brecker, Noel Pointer, Clark Terry and Oscar Brown Jr., shares an orbit with Carmen McRae, Madeleine Peyroux, Abbey Lincoln and Nancy Wilson, went on to shape Charnett Moffett, Zara McFarlane, Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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