◇ image via WikipediaLester Bowie
Lester Bowie is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Urszula Dudziak, Little Milton, Albert King, Solomon Burke and Joe Tex. Those roots explain a lot about how Lester Bowie arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sonny Sharrock and Paul Bley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Guy Sigsworth, Joseph Bowie, Avery Brooks, Fontella Bass and Jack DeJohnette, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Lester Bowie, reaching back through Urszula Dudziak and forward to Guy Sigsworth. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Lester Bowie connections
Lester Bowie grew out of Urszula Dudziak, Little Milton, Albert King and Solomon Burke, shares an orbit with Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sonny Sharrock and Paul Bley, went on to shape Guy Sigsworth, Joseph Bowie, Avery Brooks and Fontella Bass. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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