◇ image via WikipediaKai Winding
Kai Winding is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Irma Thomas and Babatunde Olatunji. Those roots explain a lot about how Kai Winding arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver and Hank Mobley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cissy Houston, Ed Lincoln and Meco, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Kai Winding, reaching back through Irma Thomas and forward to Cissy Houston. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kai Winding connections
Kai Winding grew out of Irma Thomas and Babatunde Olatunji, shares an orbit with Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones, Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver, went on to shape Cissy Houston, Ed Lincoln and Meco. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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