◇ image via WikipediaKarl Denson
Karl Denson is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The New Mastersounds and Lenny Kravitz. Those roots explain a lot about how Karl Denson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Soulive, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The Greyboy Allstars, Lettuce and Papa Grows Funk, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Steve Winwood, John Scofield, Dave Holland, Slightly Stoopid and Jack DeJohnette, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Karl Denson, reaching back through The New Mastersounds and forward to Steve Winwood. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Karl Denson is an American funk and jazz saxophonist, flutist and vocalist from Santa Ana, California. He plays with The Rolling Stones, and leads his own group, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (KDTU). He co-founded The Greyboy Allstars (GBA), and continues to tour with both KDTU and GBA as well as The Rolling Stones. Formerly, Denson was a member of Lenny Kravitz's band and he has recorded with artists including Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Slightly Stoopid, Blind Boys of Alabama, Blackalicious, Stanton Moore, and Jon Foreman of the band Switchfoot. Denson appears in the 1988 movie Coming To America and in the 2021 sequel Coming 2 America as the saxophonist in the fictional band Sexual Chocolate.
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Karl Denson connections
Karl Denson grew out of The New Mastersounds and Lenny Kravitz, shares an orbit with Soulive, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The Greyboy Allstars and Lettuce, went on to shape Steve Winwood, John Scofield, Dave Holland and Slightly Stoopid. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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