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Roy Haynes is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Oliver Nelson, Jo Jones, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young and Charlie Parker. Those roots explain a lot about how Roy Haynes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Oliver Nelson, Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette, Lee Konitz and Hank Mobley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Eric Harland, Harvey Mason, Michał Urbaniak, Lenny White and Christian McBride, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Roy Haynes, reaching back through Oliver Nelson and forward to Eric Harland. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Roy Haynes connections
Roy Haynes grew out of Oliver Nelson, Jo Jones, Thelonious Monk and Lester Young, shares an orbit with Oliver Nelson, Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette and Lee Konitz, went on to shape Eric Harland, Harvey Mason, Michał Urbaniak and Lenny White. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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