◇ image via WikipediaJimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Leroy Carr, Billy Taylor, Jelly Roll Morton, Count Basie and Wynonie Harris. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Rushing arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Count Basie, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roosevelt Sykes, Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sarah Vaughan, Big Joe Turner, Harry James, Wynonie Harris and Delmark Records, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Jimmy Rushing, reaching back through Leroy Carr and forward to Sarah Vaughan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jimmy Rushing connections
Jimmy Rushing grew out of Leroy Carr, Billy Taylor, Jelly Roll Morton and Count Basie, shares an orbit with Count Basie, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roosevelt Sykes and Duke Ellington, went on to shape Sarah Vaughan, Big Joe Turner, Harry James and Wynonie Harris. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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