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Gene Harris

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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, Jack McDuff, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Johnny Hammond and Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Madlib and Curtis Stigers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Gene Harris, reaching back through Verdine White and forward to Madlib. 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 BrownMadlibCurtis StigersWeldon IrvineJack McDuffRoy Ayers UbiquityJohnny HammondLonnie Liston Smith …Reuben WilsonIdris MuhammadGary Bartz

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Gene Harris connections

Gene Harris grew out of Verdine White and Ray Brown, shares an orbit with Weldon Irvine, Jack McDuff, Roy Ayers Ubiquity and Johnny Hammond, went on to shape Madlib and Curtis Stigers. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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