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Wayne Shorter

Jazz
Jazz

Wayne Shorter is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Rivers Cuomo, Rudy Van Gelder, Curtis Fuller, DJ Mehdi and Alex Acuña. Those roots explain a lot about how Wayne Shorter arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Miles Davis, Horace Silver and Oliver Nelson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bruce Hornsby, Derek Trucks, Narada Michael Walden, Patrice Rushen and Mino Cinelu, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Wayne Shorter, reaching back through Rivers Cuomo and forward to Bruce Hornsby. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Wayne ShorterRivers CuomoRudy Van GelderCurtis FullerDJ MehdiAlex AcuñaLeo GenoveseMiles Davis QuintetSalif KeitaBruce HornsbyDerek TrucksNarada Michael WaldenPatrice RushenMino CineluBruce Hornsby & the …Freddie HubbardWynton MarsalisFreddie HubbardHank MobleyMiles DavisHorace SilverOliver NelsonOrnette ColemanThelonious MonkBill Evans

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Wayne Shorter connections

Wayne Shorter grew out of Rivers Cuomo, Rudy Van Gelder, Curtis Fuller and DJ Mehdi, shares an orbit with Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Miles Davis and Horace Silver, went on to shape Bruce Hornsby, Derek Trucks, Narada Michael Walden and Patrice Rushen. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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Roots19

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