◇ image via WikipediaToshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Bud Powell. Those roots explain a lot about how Toshiko Akiyoshi arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ryo Fukui, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Hank Jones, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sadao Watanabe, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Toshiko Akiyoshi, reaching back through Teddy Wilson and forward to Sadao Watanabe. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Toshiko Akiyoshi connections
Toshiko Akiyoshi grew out of Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, shares an orbit with Ryo Fukui, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans, went on to shape Sadao Watanabe. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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