◇ image via WikipediaPepper Adams
Pepper Adams is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke, Fats Waller and Fletcher Henderson. Those roots explain a lot about how Pepper Adams arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ronnie Cuber, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Donald Byrd, Vladimir Cosma, Thad Jones, Fats Navarro and Tommy Flanagan, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Pepper Adams, reaching back through Charles Mingus and forward to Donald Byrd. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Pepper Adams connections
Pepper Adams grew out of Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke and Fats Waller, shares an orbit with Ronnie Cuber, went on to shape Donald Byrd, Vladimir Cosma, Thad Jones and Fats Navarro. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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