◇ image via WikipediaJohnny Griffin
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, Wynton Kelly and Wayne Shorter, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Max Roach, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Eddie Harris and Dick Morrissey, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Johnny Griffin, reaching back through Fred Below and forward to Max Roach. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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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 Wynton Kelly, went on to shape Max Roach, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Eddie Harris. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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