◇ image via WikipediaMaceo Parker
Maceo Parker is a Gospel and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Grupo Fantasma, Nils Landgren, Marva Whitney, Ray Charles 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 The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, De La Soul, Jane's Addiction and Candy Dulfer, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Maceo Parker, reaching back through Grupo Fantasma and forward to The Red Hot Chili Peppers. 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, Nils Landgren, Marva Whitney and Ray Charles, shares an orbit with Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Fred Wesley, Marcus Miller and Graham Central Station, went on to shape The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, De La Soul and Jane's Addiction. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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