◇ image via WikipediaWynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Johnny Griffin, Miles Davis Quintet, Oscar Brown Jr., Bud Powell and Teddy Wilson. Those roots explain a lot about how Wynton Kelly arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Jones, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ramsey Lewis, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Wynton Marsalis, Brad Mehldau and Marcus Miller, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Wynton Kelly, reaching back through Johnny Griffin and forward to Ramsey Lewis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Wynton Kelly connections
Wynton Kelly grew out of Johnny Griffin, Miles Davis Quintet, Oscar Brown Jr. and Bud Powell, shares an orbit with Hank Jones, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley and Oscar Peterson, went on to shape Ramsey Lewis, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Wynton Marsalis and Brad Mehldau. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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