◇ image via WikipediaFats Waller
Fats Waller is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, James P. Johnson, Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Those roots explain a lot about how Fats Waller arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Jordan, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Nat King Cole Trio, Nigel Kennedy, Pokey LaFarge, George Shearing and Jimmy Smith, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 51 connections around Fats Waller, reaching back through Ignacy Jan Paderewski and forward to The Nat King Cole Trio. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Fats Waller connections
Fats Waller grew out of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, James P. Johnson, Eubie Blake and Duke Ellington, shares an orbit with Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman and Jelly Roll Morton, went on to shape The Nat King Cole Trio, Nigel Kennedy, Pokey LaFarge and George Shearing. 51 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Fats Waller
Sounds and acts that shaped Fats Waller.
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Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Fats Waller.
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Bands Fats Waller shaped
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