◇ image via WikipediaJimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Benny Golson, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Heath arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Coleman Hawkins and Art Farmer, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Roberta Gambarini, John Coltrane, Art Farmer, Cannonball Adderley and Clark Terry, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Jimmy Heath, reaching back through Benny Golson and forward to Roberta Gambarini. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jimmy Heath connections
Jimmy Heath grew out of Benny Golson, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, shares an orbit with Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley and Coleman Hawkins, went on to shape Roberta Gambarini, John Coltrane, Art Farmer and Cannonball Adderley. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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