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Thad Jones is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Curtis Fuller, Pepper Adams, Rudy Van Gelder, Count Basie and Thelonious Monk. Those roots explain a lot about how Thad Jones arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie and Hank Mobley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Harry James, Caterina Valente, Irakere, Nils Landgren Funk Unit and Nils Landgren, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Thad Jones, reaching back through Curtis Fuller and forward to Harry James. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists".
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Thad Jones grew out of Curtis Fuller, Pepper Adams, Rudy Van Gelder and Count Basie, shares an orbit with Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Art Farmer and Dizzy Gillespie, went on to shape Harry James, Caterina Valente, Irakere and Nils Landgren Funk Unit. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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