◇ image via WikipediaJ. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Fats Navarro, Lester Young and Jimmy Heath. Those roots explain a lot about how J. J. Johnson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nat Adderley, Unfinished Sympathy, Ed Lincoln, Miles Davis and Curtis Fuller, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around J. J. Johnson, reaching back through Dizzy Gillespie and forward to Nat Adderley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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J. J. Johnson connections
J. J. Johnson grew out of Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Fats Navarro and Lester Young, shares an orbit with Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver and Hank Mobley, went on to shape Nat Adderley, Unfinished Sympathy, Ed Lincoln and Miles Davis. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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