◇ image via WikipediaStanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan is a World music act. Their sound grew out of Milton Babbitt, Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Lesh and Al Di Meola. Those roots explain a lot about how Stanley Jordan arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lee Ritenour, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Return to Forever and Marcus Miller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Quincy Jones, Stanley Clarke, The String Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh and moe., where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Stanley Jordan, reaching back through Milton Babbitt and forward to Quincy Jones. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Stanley Jordan connections
Stanley Jordan grew out of Milton Babbitt, Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie and Phil Lesh, shares an orbit with Lee Ritenour, Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Return to Forever, went on to shape Quincy Jones, Stanley Clarke, The String Cheese Incident and Phil Lesh. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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