◇ image via WikipediaKing Oliver
King Oliver is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Buddy Bolden. Those roots explain a lot about how King Oliver arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jelly Roll Morton, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Herbie Mann and Dizzy Gillespie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around King Oliver, reaching back through Buddy Bolden and forward to Dr. John. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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King Oliver connections
King Oliver grew out of Buddy Bolden, shares an orbit with Jelly Roll Morton, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins and Herbie Mann, went on to shape Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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