◇ image via WikipediaEric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Daniel Humair, Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins and Anton Webern. Those roots explain a lot about how Eric Dolphy arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Nelson, Hank Mobley and Sonny Sharrock, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into John Coltrane, Gary Bartz, Lori Goldston, Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Eric Dolphy, reaching back through Daniel Humair and forward to John Coltrane. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Eric Dolphy connections
Eric Dolphy grew out of Daniel Humair, Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins, shares an orbit with Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Nelson and Hank Mobley, went on to shape John Coltrane, Gary Bartz, Lori Goldston and Donald Byrd. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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