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Paul Motian is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Kind of Blue, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, Paul Bley and Lee Konitz. Those roots explain a lot about how Paul Motian arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Paul Bley, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Jan Garbarek and Terje Rypdal, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bill Frisell and The Raveonettes, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Paul Motian, reaching back through Kind of Blue and forward to Bill Frisell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Paul Motian connections
Paul Motian grew out of Kind of Blue, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk and Paul Bley, shares an orbit with Paul Bley, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette and Jan Garbarek, went on to shape Bill Frisell and The Raveonettes. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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