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Lester Young is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins and In the Wee Small Hours. Those roots explain a lot about how Lester Young arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Coleman Hawkins, Hank Mobley, Lee Konitz, Oscar Peterson and Count Basie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Joe Jackson, Andrew Bird, John Coltrane, Lorez Alexandria and Jay Beckenstein, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Lester Young, reaching back through Count Basie and forward to Joe Jackson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Lester Young connections
Lester Young grew out of Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins and In the Wee Small Hours, shares an orbit with Coleman Hawkins, Hank Mobley, Lee Konitz and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Joe Jackson, Andrew Bird, John Coltrane and Lorez Alexandria. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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