◇ image via WikipediaMary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams is a Classical and Gospel act. Their catalogue also touches Jazz. Their sound grew out of Charlie Parker and Teddy Wilson. Those roots explain a lot about how Mary Lou Williams arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Abbey Lincoln and Wayne Shorter, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sammy Price, Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Mary Lou Williams, reaching back through Charlie Parker and forward to Sammy Price. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Mary Lou Williams connections
Mary Lou Williams grew out of Charlie Parker and Teddy Wilson, shares an orbit with Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Abbey Lincoln, went on to shape Sammy Price, Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey and Duke Ellington. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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