◇ image via WikipediaHerb Ellis
Herb Ellis is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Charlie Byrd and Charlie Mariano. Those roots explain a lot about how Herb Ellis arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Byrd, Howard Roberts and Oscar Peterson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into James Morrison, Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster, Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Herb Ellis, reaching back through Charlie Byrd and forward to James Morrison. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Herb Ellis connections
Herb Ellis grew out of Charlie Byrd and Charlie Mariano, shares an orbit with Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Byrd and Howard Roberts, went on to shape James Morrison, Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster and Stan Getz. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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