◇ image via WikipediaWoody Shaw
Woody Shaw is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Gary Bartz, Art Blakey, Louis Armstrong and Harry James. Those roots explain a lot about how Woody Shaw arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Art Farmer and Roy Haynes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Wynton Marsalis, Madlib, Kenny Garrett, James Morrison and Chris Botti, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Woody Shaw, reaching back through Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and forward to Wynton Marsalis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Woody Shaw connections
Woody Shaw grew out of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Gary Bartz, Art Blakey and Louis Armstrong, shares an orbit with Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley and Art Farmer, went on to shape Wynton Marsalis, Madlib, Kenny Garrett and James Morrison. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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