◇ image via WikipediaShirley Horn
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, Stacey Kent, Nancy Wilson and Madeleine Peyroux, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Richard Rodney Bennett and Mark Murphy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Shirley Horn, reaching back through Ivan Lins and forward to Richard Rodney Bennett. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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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, Stacey Kent and Nancy Wilson, went on to shape Richard Rodney Bennett and Mark Murphy. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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