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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, Spirit, Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix and Grateful Dead, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Emily Armstrong, Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Stewart Copeland and Dead Sara, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Ray Manzarek, reaching back through The Grass Roots and forward to Emily Armstrong. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.