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Kenny Clarke

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Kenny Clarke is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Rhoda Scott, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Benny Carter. Those roots explain a lot about how Kenny Clarke arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Louie Bellson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, Lenny White, Art Blakey and Max Roach, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Kenny Clarke, reaching back through Rhoda Scott and forward to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Kenny ClarkeRhoda ScottCharlie ParkerDizzy GillespieThelonious MonkBenny CarterChick WebbOscar PettifordJo JonesArt Blakey & The Jaz…Miles DavisLenny WhiteArt BlakeyMax RoachDizzy GillespieStan GetzBud PowellLouie Bellson

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Kenny Clarke connections

Kenny Clarke grew out of Rhoda Scott, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, shares an orbit with Louie Bellson, went on to shape Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, Lenny White and Art Blakey. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Kenny Clarke.

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