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Sonny Stitt is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Pee Wee Crayton, Delmark Records, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton and Charlie Parker. Those roots explain a lot about how Sonny Stitt arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Konitz, Coleman Hawkins and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Johnny Griffin, Joe Lovano, Howard Roberts, Dick Morrissey and Terrace Martin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Sonny Stitt, reaching back through Pee Wee Crayton and forward to Johnny Griffin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sonny Stitt connections
Sonny Stitt grew out of Pee Wee Crayton, Delmark Records, Horace Silver and Cedar Walton, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Konitz and Coleman Hawkins, went on to shape Johnny Griffin, Joe Lovano, Howard Roberts and Dick Morrissey. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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