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Artist

Ray Manzarek

Jazz

JazzRock

Ray Manzarek is a Jazz and Rock act. Their sound grew out of The Grass Roots, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Muddy Waters and Carl Orff. Those roots explain a lot about how Ray Manzarek arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Traffic, Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into John Doe, Dead Sara, Dave Greenfield, Stewart Copeland and Exene Cervenka, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Ray Manzarek, reaching back through The Grass Roots and forward to John Doe. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.