Influences
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| Alvin Batiste | Aretha Franklin |
Art Blakey | Art Tatum | Bach | Bela Bartok |
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| Bessie Smith | Billie Holliday | Billy Strayhorn | Branford Marsalis | Bud Powell | Cannonball Adderley |
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| Charles Mingus | Charlie Parker | Claude Debussy | Clifford Brown | Coleman Hawkins | Donnald Harrison Jr. |
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| Donny Hathaway | Duke Ellington | Earth Wind and Fire | Freddie Hubbard | Hank Williams Sr. | Herbie Hancock |
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| Igor Stravinsky | James Black | James Brown | Jimmie Hendrix | JJ Johnson | Joe Henderson |
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| John Coltrane | Johnnie Adams | Joni Mitchell | Lee Morgan | Lester Young | Louis Armstrong |
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| Ludwig Van Beethoven | Mahalia Jackson | Max Roach | Miles Davis | Nat Perillat | Nicholas Payton |
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| Ornette Coleman | Poncho Quinto | Public Enemy | Robert Johnson | Roy Hanes | Sam Cooke |
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| Sarah Vaughn | Sly & the Family Stone | Sonny Rollins | Sydney Bechet | Terence Blanchard | The Meters |
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| The Roots | Thelonious Monk | Wayne Shorter | Wes Anderson | Willie Nelson | Woody Shaw |
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| Wu Tang Clan | Weather Report |