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Nils Landgren Funk Unit

Nils Landgren Funk Unit is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Thad Jones. Those roots explain a lot about how Nils Landgren Funk Unit arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Nils Landgren, Maceo Parker, Marcus Miller, Average White Band and Lettuce, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Wyclef Jean and Herbie Hancock, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Nils Landgren Funk Unit, reaching back through Thad Jones and forward to ABBA. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Nils Landgren is a Swedish R&B, funk, and jazz trombone player and singer. He is known as The Man with the Red Horn because he plays a red trombone.

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Nils Landgren Funk UnitThad JonesABBAThe CrusadersEddie HarrisWyclef JeanHerbie HancockTomasz StańkoEsbjörn SvenssonNils LandgrenMaceo ParkerMarcus MillerAverage White BandLettuceThe Haggis HornsCory WongTrombone Shorty

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit connections

Nils Landgren Funk Unit grew out of Thad Jones, shares an orbit with Nils Landgren, Maceo Parker, Marcus Miller and Average White Band, went on to shape ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris and Wyclef Jean. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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