◇ image via WikipediaKenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell is a Blues and House act. Their catalogue also touches Jazz. Their sound grew out of Gary Bartz, Django Reinhardt, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters and Charlie Christian. Those roots explain a lot about how Kenny Burrell arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Hank Mobley, Oliver Nelson and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Dorothy Ashby, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ryo Kawasaki and Larry Coryell, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Kenny Burrell, reaching back through Gary Bartz and forward to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kenny Burrell connections
Kenny Burrell grew out of Gary Bartz, Django Reinhardt, T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters, shares an orbit with Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Hank Mobley and Oliver Nelson, went on to shape Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Dorothy Ashby, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ryo Kawasaki. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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