◇ image via WikipediaKenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Art Blakey, Cedar Walton, Billy Eckstine, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and Dizzy Gillespie. Those roots explain a lot about how Kenny Dorham arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Art Farmer, Horace Silver and Wayne Shorter, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Idris Muhammad, Chuck Mangione, Fats Navarro, Cedar Walton and Jimmy Owens, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Kenny Dorham, reaching back through Art Blakey and forward to Idris Muhammad. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kenny Dorham connections
Kenny Dorham grew out of Art Blakey, Cedar Walton, Billy Eckstine and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Art Farmer and Horace Silver, went on to shape Idris Muhammad, Chuck Mangione, Fats Navarro and Cedar Walton. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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