◇ image via WikipediaSun Ra
Sun Ra is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Wynonie Harris and Lil Green. Those roots explain a lot about how Sun Ra arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Shaolin Afronauts, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck, Peter Wolf, The Pop Group and Mission of Burma, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 51 connections around Sun Ra, reaching back through Fletcher Henderson and forward to The Shaolin Afronauts. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sun Ra connections
Sun Ra grew out of Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Wynonie Harris, shares an orbit with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock, Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk, went on to shape The Shaolin Afronauts, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck, Peter Wolf and The Pop Group. 51 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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