And many of Slint's musical descendants have figured out ways to give younger listeners what they want: sing-alongable songs, charismatic personas, cool outfits.

But there is also a generational change under way, as the recent musical descendants of the father of American oboe playing, Marcel Tabuteau, who died in 1966, leave the scene.

Math and Physics Club can be seen as musical descendants of C86 and Sarah Records although no formal connection exists.

Oddly enough, in spite of being a musical descendant of Masit Sen, he rarely played Masitkhani gats in public, and none of the commercially available examples of his music includes one.

When he emerged from retirement, Davis's musical descendants would be in the realm of New Wave rock, and in particular the styling of Prince.

The song is reminiscent and a musical descendant of her 1999 single, "Beautiful Stranger", also produced by William Orbit, as cited by the majority of critics.

He concluded that the album "set a musical pattern Young and his many musical descendants have followed ever since [...] and a lot of contemporary bands were playing music clearly influenced by it."

Although those bands never got within spitting distance of the Billboard charts, their musical descendants, led by Nirvana, are going multiplatinum.

Almost a quarter-century after his debut album was released, Prince's musical descendants have taken over the airwaves: Missy Elliott, No Doubt, OutKast, the Neptunes, Alicia Keys.

But they are tied together by the fact that Monk's basic influence was Ellington and both pianists were musical descendants of the Harlem stride pianists.