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Don Shirley is a Classical and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Igor Stravinsky. Those roots explain a lot about how Don Shirley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker and Chick Corea, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Don Shirley, reaching back through George Gershwin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Donald Walbridge Shirley was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical influence. He wrote organ symphonies, piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera, works for organ, piano and violin, a symphonic poem based on the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, and a set of "Variations" on the 1858 opera Orpheus in the Underworld.
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Don Shirley connections
Don Shirley grew out of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Igor Stravinsky, shares an orbit with Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Chet Baker. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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