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Percy Heath is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Ray Brown, Benny Golson, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Those roots explain a lot about how Percy Heath arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Scott LaFaro, Joe Morello, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Ray Brown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into James Jamerson and Paul Chambers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Percy Heath, reaching back through Ray Brown and forward to James Jamerson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Percy Heath grew out of Ray Brown, Benny Golson, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, shares an orbit with Scott LaFaro, Joe Morello, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Ray Brown, went on to shape James Jamerson and Paul Chambers. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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