◇ image via WikipediaTommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bob Wills, Mary Lou Williams, Pinetop Smith, Boogie and Rudy Vallée. Those roots explain a lot about how Tommy Dorsey arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton and Chick Webb, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Wayne Hancock, Bill Evans, Glenn Miller, Hoagy Carmichael and Dinah Shore, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Tommy Dorsey, reaching back through Bob Wills and forward to Wayne Hancock. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Tommy Dorsey connections
Tommy Dorsey grew out of Bob Wills, Mary Lou Williams, Pinetop Smith and Boogie, shares an orbit with Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton, went on to shape Wayne Hancock, Bill Evans, Glenn Miller and Hoagy Carmichael. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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