◇ image via WikipediaTommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Pinetop Smith, Bob Wills, Boogie, Rudy Vallée and Paul Whiteman. Those roots explain a lot about how Tommy Dorsey arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Chick Webb, Fats Waller and Count Basie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Wayne Hancock, Ken Curtis, Bill Evans Trio, Frank Sinatra and Doris Day, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Tommy Dorsey, reaching back through Pinetop Smith 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 Pinetop Smith, Bob Wills, Boogie and Rudy Vallée, shares an orbit with Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Chick Webb and Fats Waller, went on to shape Wayne Hancock, Ken Curtis, Bill Evans Trio and Frank Sinatra. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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