◇ image via WikipediaGrover Washington Jr.
Grover Washington Jr. is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Charles Earland, Ralph MacDonald, Bill Withers, Take Five and Four Tops. Those roots explain a lot about how Grover Washington Jr. arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Crusaders, Coleman Hawkins, Lonnie Liston Smith, Dave Grusin and Marcus Miller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ronnie Foster, Terrace Martin, DJ Ezasscul, Phyllis Hyman and Modern Vampires of the City, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Grover Washington Jr., reaching back through Charles Earland and forward to Ronnie Foster. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Grover Washington Jr. connections
Grover Washington Jr. grew out of Charles Earland, Ralph MacDonald, Bill Withers and Take Five, shares an orbit with The Crusaders, Coleman Hawkins, Lonnie Liston Smith and Dave Grusin, went on to shape Ronnie Foster, Terrace Martin, DJ Ezasscul and Phyllis Hyman. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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