You use everything in your musical life. This track from the TV show is a direct result when i playing in a band 6 nights a week for a year 30 years prior to the TV show. These cats who knew how to build a groove. I learned how to pace my solos and build a groove and some of those tunes those days lasted 30 minutes with dancers ! These guys those day’s were all stars of what we called the “chitlin circuit” not sure if anyone knows what that is anymore but here it is below from Wikepedia for your interest. It was a great spawning ground for a young kid like me at the time priceless. Here is a track from the TV show which is a direct result of that experience I had 25 years prior !!

TV show – Sidewinder Groove :

The “chitlin’ circuit” is the collective name given to the string of performance venues throughout the eastern, southern, and upper mid-west areas of the United States that were safe and acceptable for African American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers to perform in during the age of racial segregation in the United States (from at least the early 19th century through the 1960s) as well as the venues that contemporary African American soul and blues performers, especially in the South, continue to appear at regularly. The name derives from the soul food item chitterlings (stewed pig intestines) and is also a play on the term “Borscht Belt”, which referred to a group of venues (primarily in New York state’s Catskill Mountains) that were popular with Jewish performers during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.[1]
Noted theaters on the chitlin’ circuit included the Royal Peacock in Atlanta; the Carver Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama; the Cotton Club, Small’s Paradise and the Apollo Theater in New York City; Robert’s Show Lounge, Club DeLisa and the Regal Theatre in Chicago; the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C.; the Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia; the Royal Theatre in Baltimore; the Fox Theatre in Detroit; the Victory Grill in Austin, Texas; the Hippodrome Theatre in Richmond, Virginia; the Ritz Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida; and The Madam C. J. Walker Theatre on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis.
The song “Tuxedo Junction” was written about a stop along the chitlin’ circuit in Birmingham. Once the performance was over, the band would leave for the next stop on the circuit. When the lyrics were ready to be added, Erskine Hawkins explained the reason for the title to Buddy Feyne who then created lyrics to match the meaning.[2]
Many notable performers worked on the chitlin’ circuit, including Count Basie, Sam Cooke, Sheila Guyse, Jackie Wilson, Peg Leg Bates, George Benson, James Brown & The Famous Flames, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, The Jackson 5, Redd Foxx, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Lena Horne, Etta James, B.B. King, Patti LaBelle, Moms Mabley, The Delfonics, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Wilson Pickett, Richard Pryor, Otis Redding, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Marvin Gaye, Little Richard, The Miracles, Ike & Tina Turner, The Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, The Supremes, The Temptations, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Tammi Terrell, Muddy Waters, Flip Wilson and Jimmie Walker.