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Lee Morgan is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Ron Carter, Clifford Brown and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Those roots explain a lot about how Lee Morgan arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver and Oliver Nelson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sound Directions, Yesterday's New Quintet, Chuck Mangione, Nathan Watts and Woody Shaw, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Lee Morgan, reaching back through Dizzy Gillespie and forward to Sound Directions. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Lee Morgan connections
Lee Morgan grew out of Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Ron Carter and Clifford Brown, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Horace Silver, went on to shape Sound Directions, Yesterday's New Quintet, Chuck Mangione and Nathan Watts. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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