◇ image via WikipediaThelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Gil Mellé, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Waller and James P. Johnson. Those roots explain a lot about how Thelonious Monk arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley and Dizzy Gillespie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Percy Heath, Paul Motian, Kyle Eastwood, Joe Louis Walker and Was (Not Was), where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 85 connections around Thelonious Monk, reaching back through Gil Mellé and forward to Percy Heath. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Thelonious Monk connections
Thelonious Monk grew out of Gil Mellé, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Waller, shares an orbit with Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter and Hank Mobley, went on to shape Percy Heath, Paul Motian, Kyle Eastwood and Joe Louis Walker. 85 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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