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Zoot Sims is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Lester Young, Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Byrd and Benny Goodman. Those roots explain a lot about how Zoot Sims arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Coleman Hawkins, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, Hank Mobley and Oscar Peterson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Woody Herman, Johnny Mandel, The Manhattan Transfer and Bossanova, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Zoot Sims, reaching back through Lester Young and forward to Woody Herman. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Zoot Sims connections
Zoot Sims grew out of Lester Young, Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt and Charlie Byrd, shares an orbit with Coleman Hawkins, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz and Hank Mobley, went on to shape Woody Herman, Johnny Mandel, The Manhattan Transfer and Bossanova. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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