◇ image via WikipediaHarry Connick Jr.
Harry Connick Jr. is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Donny Hathaway, Kim Burrell, Carmen McRae, Eubie Blake and Ellis Marsalis Jr.. Those roots explain a lot about how Harry Connick Jr. arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Perry Como, Jamie Cullum, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Peggy Lee and June Christy, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Charnett Moffett, Gary Allan and Newton Faulkner, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Harry Connick Jr., reaching back through Donny Hathaway and forward to Charnett Moffett. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Harry Connick Jr. connections
Harry Connick Jr. grew out of Donny Hathaway, Kim Burrell, Carmen McRae and Eubie Blake, shares an orbit with Perry Como, Jamie Cullum, Vince Guaraldi Trio and Peggy Lee, went on to shape Charnett Moffett, Gary Allan and Newton Faulkner. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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