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Shirley Horn

Jazz
Jazz

Shirley Horn is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Ivan Lins, Roy Hargrove, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal. Those roots explain a lot about how Shirley Horn arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson, Madeleine Peyroux and Dinah Washington, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mark Murphy and Richard Rodney Bennett, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around Shirley Horn, reaching back through Ivan Lins and forward to Mark Murphy. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Shirley HornIvan LinsRoy HargroveErroll GarnerOscar PetersonAhmad JamalMiles DavisMelissa ManchesterRay CharlesMark MurphyRichard Rodney BennettCarmen McRaeBetty CarterNancy WilsonMadeleine PeyrouxDinah WashingtonAbbey LincolnJune ChristyHank Jones

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Shirley Horn connections

Shirley Horn grew out of Ivan Lins, Roy Hargrove, Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson, shares an orbit with Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson and Madeleine Peyroux, went on to shape Mark Murphy and Richard Rodney Bennett. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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