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Margo Guryan

Margo Guryan is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Max Roach, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Jim Hall. Those roots explain a lot about how Margo Guryan arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Cass Elliot, Nancy Sinatra, The Mamas & the Papas, The Little Dippers and The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Carmen McRae, Saint Etienne, Julie London, Clairo and Oliver, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Margo Guryan, reaching back through Max Roach and forward to Carmen McRae. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Margo GuryanMax RoachBill EvansOrnette ColemanDon CherryJim HallJohn LewisThe Beach BoysCarmen McRaeSaint EtienneJulie LondonClairoOliverCass ElliotGlen CampbellAstrud GilbertoCass ElliotNancy SinatraThe Mamas & the PapasThe Little DippersThe West Coast Pop A…Joan BaezNicoThe Fleetwoods

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Margo Guryan connections

Margo Guryan grew out of Max Roach, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, shares an orbit with Cass Elliot, Nancy Sinatra, The Mamas & the Papas and The Little Dippers, went on to shape Carmen McRae, Saint Etienne, Julie London and Clairo. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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