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Lester Young is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of In the Wee Small Hours, Count Basie and Coleman Hawkins. 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, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Henderson, King Curtis and Zoot Sims, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 44 connections around Lester Young, reaching back through In the Wee Small Hours 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 In the Wee Small Hours, Count Basie and Coleman Hawkins, shares an orbit with Coleman Hawkins, Hank Mobley, Lee Konitz and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Joe Jackson, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Henderson and King Curtis. 44 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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