◇ image via WikipediaRonny Jordan
Ronny Jordan is a House act. Their sound grew out of Don-E and Miles Davis. Those roots explain a lot about how Ronny Jordan arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Galliano, The Brand New Heavies, The James Taylor Quartet, Carleen Anderson and Brooklyn Funk Essentials, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Guru, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Ronny Jordan, reaching back through Don-E and forward to Guru. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Robert Laurence Albert Simpson, known professionally as Ronny Jordan was a British guitarist and part of the acid jazz movement at the end of the twentieth century. Jordan described his music as "urban jazz", a blend of jazz, hip-hop, and R&B.
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Ronny Jordan grew out of Don-E and Miles Davis, shares an orbit with Galliano, The Brand New Heavies, The James Taylor Quartet and Carleen Anderson, went on to shape Guru. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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