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Jan Akkerman is a Jazz and Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Vlatko Stefanovski, Julian Bream, John McLaughlin, Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore. Those roots explain a lot about how Jan Akkerman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Focus, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Gong and The Crusaders, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Phil Campbell, Focus, Alan Price, Herman Brood and Peter Banks, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Jan Akkerman, reaching back through Vlatko Stefanovski and forward to Phil Campbell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jan Akkerman connections
Jan Akkerman grew out of Vlatko Stefanovski, Julian Bream, John McLaughlin and Jimmy Page, shares an orbit with Focus, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Gong, went on to shape Phil Campbell, Focus, Alan Price and Herman Brood. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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