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Wes Montgomery

Jazz
Jazz

Wes Montgomery is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Insensatez, Johnny Pate, The Champs, Charlie Christian and John Coltrane. Those roots explain a lot about how Wes Montgomery arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Oscar Peterson and Horace Silver, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Robby Krieger, Stevie Wonder, George Benson, Bob James and Eric Johnson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 44 connections around Wes Montgomery, reaching back through Insensatez and forward to Robby Krieger. 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
Wes MontgomeryInsensatezJohnny PateThe ChampsCharlie ChristianJohn ColtraneMiles Davis QuintetKind of BluePaul ChambersRobby KriegerStevie WonderGeorge BensonBob JamesEric JohnsonLee RitenourSir DukeThird Stone from the…Hank MobleyFreddie HubbardWayne ShorterOscar PetersonHorace SilverMiles DavisDuke Ellington

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Wes Montgomery connections

Wes Montgomery grew out of Insensatez, Johnny Pate, The Champs and Charlie Christian, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Robby Krieger, Stevie Wonder, George Benson and Bob James. 44 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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