◇ image via WikipediaOscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Those roots explain a lot about how Oscar Pettiford arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ray Brown, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Hank Mobley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bud Powell, Paul Chambers, Nat Adderley, Christian McBride and Kenny Clarke, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Oscar Pettiford, reaching back through Charlie Parker and forward to Bud Powell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Oscar Pettiford connections
Oscar Pettiford grew out of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, shares an orbit with Ray Brown, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie, went on to shape Bud Powell, Paul Chambers, Nat Adderley and Christian McBride. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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