◇ image via WikipediaMichael Brecker
Michael Brecker is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Dreams, Michał Urbaniak, Jack DeJohnette, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Those roots explain a lot about how Michael Brecker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Brecker Brothers, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis and Dave Weckl, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Everything But the Girl, David Sanborn, Randy Brecker, James Taylor and Paul Simon, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Michael Brecker, reaching back through Dreams and forward to Everything But the Girl. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Michael Brecker connections
Michael Brecker grew out of Dreams, Michał Urbaniak, Jack DeJohnette and John Coltrane, shares an orbit with The Brecker Brothers, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea and Branford Marsalis, went on to shape Everything But the Girl, David Sanborn, Randy Brecker and James Taylor. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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