◇ image via WikipediaOscar Brown Jr.
Oscar Brown Jr. is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Nina Simone, Nat Adderley, Miles Davis, Bobby Timmons and Mongo Santamaria. Those roots explain a lot about how Oscar Brown Jr. arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sarah Vaughan, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Madeleine Peyroux and Lou Rawls, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Al Wilson, The Manhattan Transfer and David Johansen, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Oscar Brown Jr., reaching back through Nina Simone and forward to Mahalia Jackson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Oscar Brown Jr. connections
Oscar Brown Jr. grew out of Nina Simone, Nat Adderley, Miles Davis and Bobby Timmons, shares an orbit with Sarah Vaughan, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington and Madeleine Peyroux, went on to shape Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Al Wilson and The Manhattan Transfer. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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