◇ image via WikipediaErroll Garner
Erroll Garner is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Annie Ross and Earl Hines. Those roots explain a lot about how Erroll Garner arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Fats Waller, Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dave Grusin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ray Stevens and Aretha Franklin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Erroll Garner, reaching back through James P. Johnson and forward to Dave Grusin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Erroll Garner connections
Erroll Garner grew out of James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Annie Ross and Earl Hines, shares an orbit with Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Fats Waller and Bill Evans, went on to shape Dave Grusin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Ray Stevens. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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