◇ image via WikipediaRoy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Benny Carter, Herb Ellis, Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins. Those roots explain a lot about how Roy Eldridge arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bongo Bong and Dizzy Gillespie, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Roy Eldridge, reaching back through Benny Carter and forward to Bongo Bong. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Roy Eldridge connections
Roy Eldridge grew out of Benny Carter, Herb Ellis, Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, shares an orbit with Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller and Dizzy Gillespie, went on to shape Bongo Bong and Dizzy Gillespie. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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