| Influences | Musicians: Wadada Leo Smith, Skip James, Thelonious Monk, Anthony Braxton, Miles Davis, Charles Ives, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Henry Threadgill, Booker Little, Jelly Roll Morton, Eric Dolphy, Devendra Banhart, Lester Bowie, Willie Nelson, Howlin' Wolf, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bob Dylan, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, Leroy Jenkins, Billie Holiday, Hank Williams, Brian Wilson, Erik Satie, Kraig Grady, Wayne Shorter, Smokey Robinson, Toru Takemitsu, John Coltrane, Arvo Part, Ornette Coleman, Bjork, Cecil Taylor, Bubber Miley, Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground, Bukka White, Igor Stravinsky, Harry Partch, Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, Morton Feldman, Ray Charles, Glenn Gould, Rex Stewart, Woody Guthrie, Perez Prado, Albert Ayler, Hamza El Din, Michael Vlatkovich, Dave Douglas, Sun Ra, J.S. Bach, Ali Farka Toure, Raphe Malik, Olivier Messiaen, Maurice André, Roscoe Mitchell, Neil Young, Steve Lacy, John Fahey, The Books, Lee Morgan, Jimmie Rodgers, The Castanets, Elmore James, Terence Blanchard, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Giuffre, Charles Trenet, Roy Eldridge, Henry Brant, Yo La Tengo, Henryk Gorecki, and Hoagy Carmichael, in that exact order... Writers: Kenneth Patchen, Ken Wilber, Samuel Beckett, Jean Giono, Henry Miller, Umberto Eco, Ernst Cassirer, Van Wyck Brooks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Douglas Adams, Don DeLillo, Aurobindo, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Ralph Nader... Artists: Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jasper Johns, Romare Bearden, Art Sherwyn, Vincent van Gogh... Film: Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Guest, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, anything starring Bill Murray... |
