◇ image via WikipediaMaceo Parker
Maceo Parker is a Gospel and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Grupo Fantasma, Ray Charles, Nils Landgren, Marva Whitney and Candy Dulfer. Those roots explain a lot about how Maceo Parker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Fred Wesley, Marcus Miller, Graham Central Station and The J.B.'s, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dave Matthews Band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Candy Dulfer and Prince, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 45 connections around Maceo Parker, reaching back through Grupo Fantasma and forward to Dave Matthews Band. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Maceo Parker connections
Maceo Parker grew out of Grupo Fantasma, Ray Charles, Nils Landgren and Marva Whitney, shares an orbit with Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Fred Wesley, Marcus Miller and Graham Central Station, went on to shape Dave Matthews Band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction and Candy Dulfer. 45 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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