◇ image via WikipediaRyo Kawasaki
Ryo Kawasaki is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Gil Evans, Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Bobbi Humphrey and Jimi Hendrix. Those roots explain a lot about how Ryo Kawasaki arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Idris Muhammad, Shigeru Suzuki, Lonnie Liston Smith, Billy Cobham and Prism, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kool G Rap, Keith Murray and Puff Daddy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Ryo Kawasaki, reaching back through Gil Evans and forward to Kool G Rap. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ryo Kawasaki connections
Ryo Kawasaki grew out of Gil Evans, Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine and Bobbi Humphrey, shares an orbit with Idris Muhammad, Shigeru Suzuki, Lonnie Liston Smith and Billy Cobham, went on to shape Kool G Rap, Keith Murray and Puff Daddy. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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