◇ image via WikipediaMax Roach
Max Roach is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Paul Chambers, Jo Jones, Johnny Griffin, Take the "A" Train and It's Time. Those roots explain a lot about how Max Roach arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley and Dizzy Gillespie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Hank Mobley, Tony Allen, Richard Galliano, Joe Chambers and Jimmy Owens, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 56 connections around Max Roach, reaching back through Paul Chambers and forward to Hank Mobley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Max Roach connections
Max Roach grew out of Paul Chambers, Jo Jones, Johnny Griffin and Take the "A" Train, shares an orbit with Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Hank Mobley, went on to shape Hank Mobley, Tony Allen, Richard Galliano and Joe Chambers. 56 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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