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Fontella Bass is a Blues and House act. Their catalogue also touches Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of The Cinematic Orchestra, Chess Records, Lester Bowie, James Jamerson and Bobby Patterson. Those roots explain a lot about how Fontella Bass arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Betty Everett, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, The Supremes and The Four Tops, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Thirty Three & 1/3, Ry Cooder, Chaka Khan, Chuck Berry and The Cinematic Orchestra, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Fontella Bass, reaching back through The Cinematic Orchestra and forward to Thirty Three & 1/3. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Fontella Bass connections
Fontella Bass grew out of The Cinematic Orchestra, Chess Records, Lester Bowie and James Jamerson, shares an orbit with Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Betty Everett, Jr. Walker & The All Stars and The Supremes, went on to shape Thirty Three & 1/3, Ry Cooder, Chaka Khan and Chuck Berry. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Barbara Lewisartist
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