◇ image via WikipediaMildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bessie Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Louis Armstrong and Ethel Waters. Those roots explain a lot about how Mildred Bailey arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dinah Washington, The Nat King Cole Trio, Lorez Alexandria, Benny Carter and Fats Waller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bing Crosby, Helen Humes and Frankie Laine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Mildred Bailey, reaching back through Bessie Smith and forward to Bing Crosby. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Mildred Bailey connections
Mildred Bailey grew out of Bessie Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Louis Armstrong and Ethel Waters, shares an orbit with Dinah Washington, The Nat King Cole Trio, Lorez Alexandria and Benny Carter, went on to shape Bing Crosby, Helen Humes and Frankie Laine. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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