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Jimmy Smith is a Funk and House act. Their catalogue also touches Indie rock. Their sound grew out of Phil Upchurch, Eugene McDaniels, Gene McDaniels, Got My Mojo Working and Fats Waller. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Smith arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jack McDuff, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver and Wes Montgomery, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ronnie Foster, Barbara Morrison, Alan Price, Joe Cocker and Jon Lord, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Jimmy Smith, reaching back through Phil Upchurch and forward to Ronnie Foster. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jimmy Smith connections
Jimmy Smith grew out of Phil Upchurch, Eugene McDaniels, Gene McDaniels and Got My Mojo Working, shares an orbit with Jack McDuff, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver, went on to shape Ronnie Foster, Barbara Morrison, Alan Price and Joe Cocker. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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