◇ image via WikipediaNeal Hefti
Neal Hefti is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Woody Herman, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. Those roots explain a lot about how Neal Hefti arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Henry Mancini, Earl Grant, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mandel and Jerry Goldsmith, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Hot Butter, Buddy Rich, Harry James, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Neal Hefti, reaching back through Woody Herman and forward to Hot Butter. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Neal Hefti connections
Neal Hefti grew out of Woody Herman, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Cab Calloway, shares an orbit with Henry Mancini, Earl Grant, Michel Legrand and Johnny Mandel, went on to shape Hot Butter, Buddy Rich, Harry James and Charlie Parker. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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