◇ image via WikipediaSheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus. Those roots explain a lot about how Sheila Jordan arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Andy Bey, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and Cécile McLorin Salvant, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bob Moses, Carla Bley, George Russell and Lee Konitz, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Sheila Jordan, reaching back through Charlie Parker and forward to Bob Moses. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sheila Jordan connections
Sheila Jordan grew out of Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus, shares an orbit with Andy Bey, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Abbey Lincoln, went on to shape Bob Moses, Carla Bley, George Russell and Lee Konitz. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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