◇ image via WikipediaJames P. Johnson
James P. Johnson is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Eubie Blake and George Gershwin. Those roots explain a lot about how James P. Johnson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Brad Mehldau, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Oscar Peterson Trio, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around James P. Johnson, reaching back through Bessie Smith and forward to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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James P. Johnson connections
James P. Johnson grew out of Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton and Eubie Blake, shares an orbit with Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, went on to shape Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Oscar Peterson Trio, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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