◇ image via WikipediaThe Jazz Crusaders
The Jazz Crusaders is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, John Coltrane and Stevie Wonder. Those roots explain a lot about how The Jazz Crusaders arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Crusaders, Jack McDuff, Wes Montgomery, Lettuce and Idris Muhammad, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Average White Band, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan and Randy Newman, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around The Jazz Crusaders, reaching back through Cannonball Adderley and forward to Average White Band. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Jazz Crusaders connections
The Jazz Crusaders grew out of Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, John Coltrane and Stevie Wonder, shares an orbit with The Crusaders, Jack McDuff, Wes Montgomery and Lettuce, went on to shape Average White Band, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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