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Eddie Harris

World music
World music

Eddie Harris is a World music act. Their sound grew out of Linda Hopkins, Johnny Griffin, Nat King Cole, Eugene McDaniels and Nils Landgren Funk Unit. Those roots explain a lot about how Eddie Harris arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dizzy Gillespie, Jack McDuff, Johnny Hammond, Idris Muhammad and Reuben Wilson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Miles Davis, Nils Landgren and Ian Paice, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Eddie Harris, reaching back through Linda Hopkins and forward to Miles Davis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Eddie HarrisLinda HopkinsJohnny GriffinNat King ColeEugene McDanielsNils Landgren Funk U…Gene McDanielsMiles DavisNils LandgrenIan PaiceDizzy GillespieJack McDuffJohnny HammondIdris MuhammadReuben WilsonMaceo ParkerThe CrusadersHank Mobley

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Eddie Harris connections

Eddie Harris grew out of Linda Hopkins, Johnny Griffin, Nat King Cole and Eugene McDaniels, shares an orbit with Dizzy Gillespie, Jack McDuff, Johnny Hammond and Idris Muhammad, went on to shape Miles Davis, Nils Landgren and Ian Paice. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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