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Johnny Griffin

Jazz
Jazz

Johnny Griffin is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Fred Below, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Sonny Stitt. Those roots explain a lot about how Johnny Griffin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter and Lee Konitz, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dick Morrissey, Clémentine, Roy Hargrove, Albert Heath and Nat Adderley, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Johnny Griffin, reaching back through Fred Below and forward to Dick Morrissey. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Johnny GriffinFred BelowArt Blakey & The Jaz…Thelonious MonkArt BlakeySonny StittT-Bone WalkerJohn ColtraneHank MobleyDick MorrisseyClémentineRoy HargroveAlbert HeathNat AdderleyWynton KellyMax RoachClark TerryHank MobleyFreddie HubbardHorace SilverWayne ShorterLee KonitzThad JonesArt FarmerThelonious Monk

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Johnny Griffin connections

Johnny Griffin grew out of Fred Below, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver and Wayne Shorter, went on to shape Dick Morrissey, Clémentine, Roy Hargrove and Albert Heath. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Johnny Griffin

Roots8

Sounds and acts that shaped Johnny Griffin.

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Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Johnny Griffin.

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