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James Jamerson is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of The Jazz Crusaders, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers and Percy Heath. Those roots explain a lot about how James Jamerson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Louis Johnson, Carol Kaye, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Wojtek Pilichowski and Bernard Edwards, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Anthony Jackson, Greta Van Fleet, Jermaine Jackson, Geddy Lee and Jaco Pastorius, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around James Jamerson, reaching back through The Jazz Crusaders and forward to Anthony Jackson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. As a session musician he played on twenty-three Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, as well as fifty-six R&B number-one hits.
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James Jamerson connections
James Jamerson grew out of The Jazz Crusaders, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers and Percy Heath, shares an orbit with Louis Johnson, Carol Kaye, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Wojtek Pilichowski, went on to shape Anthony Jackson, Greta Van Fleet, Jermaine Jackson and Geddy Lee. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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