◇ image via WikipediaOliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Michał Urbaniak, Freddie Hubbard, Paul Chambers, Louis Jordan and Maurice Ravel. Those roots explain a lot about how Oliver Nelson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver and Miles Davis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sting, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, Roy Haynes and Bill Evans, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Oliver Nelson, reaching back through Michał Urbaniak and forward to Sting. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the 1960s are the albums More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1964) and Sound Pieces (1966), both also on Impulse!.
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Oliver Nelson connections
Oliver Nelson grew out of Michał Urbaniak, Freddie Hubbard, Paul Chambers and Louis Jordan, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver, went on to shape Sting, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy and Roy Haynes. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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