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Ornette Coleman is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Paul Bley, Albert Ayler, Freddie Hubbard, Kind of Blue and James Blood Ulmer. Those roots explain a lot about how Ornette Coleman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Wayne Shorter, Sonny Sharrock, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Lee Konitz, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Charnett Moffett, The Shape of Punk to Come, John Coltrane Quartet, The Pop Group and On the Corner, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 53 connections around Ornette Coleman, reaching back through Paul Bley and forward to Charnett Moffett. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ornette Coleman connections
Ornette Coleman grew out of Paul Bley, Albert Ayler, Freddie Hubbard and Kind of Blue, shares an orbit with Wayne Shorter, Sonny Sharrock, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, went on to shape Charnett Moffett, The Shape of Punk to Come, John Coltrane Quartet and The Pop Group. 53 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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