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Les Paul is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Danny Gatton, Art Tatum, Django Reinhardt, Tennessee Waltz and Bo Diddley. Those roots explain a lot about how Les Paul arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan and Peggy Lee, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Baden Powell, Mickey Baker, Carpenters, The Carpenters and Mary Ford, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Les Paul, reaching back through Danny Gatton and forward to Baden Powell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Les Paul connections
Les Paul grew out of Danny Gatton, Art Tatum, Django Reinhardt and Tennessee Waltz, shares an orbit with Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan, went on to shape Baden Powell, Mickey Baker, Carpenters and The Carpenters. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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