◇ image via WikipediaKenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell is a Blues and House act. Their catalogue also touches Jazz. Their sound grew out of Gary Bartz, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Charlie Christian and Pepper Adams. Those roots explain a lot about how Kenny Burrell arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Wes Montgomery, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Oscar Peterson and Horace Silver, 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, Kamasi Washington and Gretchen Parlato, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 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, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters and Charlie Christian, shares an orbit with Wes Montgomery, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Dorothy Ashby, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Kamasi Washington. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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