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Dick Hyman is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Teddy Wilson, Green Onions, James P. Johnson, Eubie Blake and Bix Beiderbecke. Those roots explain a lot about how Dick Hyman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Walter Wanderley, Henry Mancini, Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller and Carmen McRae, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dexter Wansel and Beck, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around Dick Hyman, reaching back through Teddy Wilson and forward to Dexter Wansel. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dick Hyman connections
Dick Hyman grew out of Teddy Wilson, Green Onions, James P. Johnson and Eubie Blake, shares an orbit with Walter Wanderley, Henry Mancini, Oscar Peterson and Fats Waller, went on to shape Dexter Wansel and Beck. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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