◇ image via WikipediaMarian McPartland
Marian McPartland is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson. Those roots explain a lot about how Marian McPartland arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Betty Carter, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Hank Jones and Duke Ellington, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Roy Hargrove, The Dave Brubeck Quartet and Lyle Mays, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Marian McPartland, reaching back through Mary Lou Williams and forward to Roy Hargrove. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Marian McPartland connections
Marian McPartland grew out of Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson, shares an orbit with Betty Carter, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie and Hank Jones, went on to shape Roy Hargrove, The Dave Brubeck Quartet and Lyle Mays. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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