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Gene Harris

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BluesFunk

Gene Harris is a Blues and Funk act. Their sound grew out of Verdine White and Ray Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Gene Harris arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Weldon Irvine, Sunbear, Jack McDuff, Roy Ayers Ubiquity and Johnny Hammond, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Curtis Stigers and Madlib, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Gene Harris, reaching back through Verdine White and forward to Curtis Stigers. 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
Gene HarrisVerdine WhiteRay BrownCurtis StigersMadlibWeldon IrvineSunbearJack McDuffRoy Ayers UbiquityJohnny HammondRonnie FosterCortexLonnie Liston Smith …

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Gene Harris connections

Gene Harris grew out of Verdine White and Ray Brown, shares an orbit with Weldon Irvine, Sunbear, Jack McDuff and Roy Ayers Ubiquity, went on to shape Curtis Stigers and Madlib. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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