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Toots Thielemans is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman and Lester Young. Those roots explain a lot about how Toots Thielemans arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Oscar Peterson, Charlie Byrd, Nils Landgren, Django Reinhardt and Dave Grusin, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Beth Hart, Vladimir Cosma and Wilson das Neves, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Toots Thielemans, reaching back through Django Reinhardt and forward to Stevie Wonder. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Toots Thielemans connections
Toots Thielemans grew out of Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman, shares an orbit with Oscar Peterson, Charlie Byrd, Nils Landgren and Django Reinhardt, went on to shape Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Beth Hart and Vladimir Cosma. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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