Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Bulgarian Women’s choir, Japanese gagaku music, kabuki music, shakuhachi music, Bjork, Jay Z, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, Rage Against the Machine, Messhuga, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Sam Cook, Beatles, Bob Marley, Bill Withers, Bix Biederbecke, Marvin Gaye, J Pop music, Balkan Music, African tribal music, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Eddie Palmerie, Ray Baretto, Freddie Hubbard, Radiohead, Portishead.

Julius Baker, Emmanuel Pahud, Jean - Pierre Rampal, Robert Dick, John Barcellona, Fiona Apple, the Beatles, Keith Underwood, Led Zepplin, Ravi Shankar, Radiohead, Susan Hoeppner, Jimi Hendrix, Marina Piccinnini, James Galway, Louise di Tullio

Lee Konitz, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Bley, Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Warne Marsh, Lennie Tristano, George Garzone, JS Bach, Keith Jarrett, Debussy, Messiaen, Paul Desmond, John Coltrane, Pete Rende, Thomas Morgan, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Mozart, Paul Motian

I'm influenced by the earth, water, sound, ideas, history, visual images, visual arts, literature, music, dance, food, places, walks, exercise, family, relationships, etc...

I have never attempted a complete list of my musical influences.  I really have way too many to list and don't know where to start or stop, so I'll just write down some of them:

Gregorian chant, folk songs from all over the world, hymns, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Thad Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Billy Holiday, Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Chick Corea,  Jason Moran, Andrew Hill, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Jack DeJohnette, Tony Williams, Art Blakey, Paul Motian, Nasheet Waits, Tyshawn Sorey, Steve Lehman, Pat Metheney, Henry Threadgill, Harry Partch, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, R. Schuman, George Crumb,  Stockhausen, Debussy, Ravel, Takemitsu, Ayaka Nishina,  Joni Mitchel, the Beatles, Radiohead, Weezer, Green Day, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Led Zeppelin, YES, R.E.M, etc...

Vinnie Colaiuta, Julio Barreto, Tony Williams, Tomas Haake, Ken Schalk, Dan Weiss, Ari Hoenig, Kieth Carlock, Eric Kretz, Jojo Mayer, Peter Wildoer, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Flo Mournier, and many more...

The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bill Evans, Brad Mehldau, Elliott Smith, Emmit Rhodes, Erroll Garner, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Jon Brion, Keith Jarrett, Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis, Paul Bley, Radiohead, Shuggie Otis, Thelonious Monk

Sounds of the earth, Breaths, Lullabies and chants from around the world, Bhagavad Gita, Gamalan Music from Indonesia and Bali, Gagaku (Japanese Imperial court music from Heian period), Guillaume de Machaut, Josquin Desprez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Carlo Gesualdo, Arcangelo Corelli, Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Jean-Philippe Rameau, J.S.Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, W.A.Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, P.I. Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Nadia Boulanger, Alfred Cortot, Andrés Segovia, Dmitri Schostakovich, Herbert von Karajan, Olivier Messian, Akira Kurosawa, John Cage, Michelangelo Antonioni, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Gyorgy Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Toru Takemitsu, Andrei Arsenyevich, Glenn Gould, Terry Riley, Martin Scorsese, Evan Parker, Bernard Woma, Cyro Baptista, Kaija Saariaho, John Zorn, Akira Nishimura, The Beatles, Ned Rothenberg, Brad Mehldau, Björk, Radiohead... (approximately in historical order).

Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Jim Hall, Pete Bernstein, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pat Metheny, Stan Getz, Lennie Tristano, Chris Cheek, Jobim, Pantara, Megadeth, Metallica, Guns n Roses, The Police, Bach, Hildegard von Bingen, Ravel, Palestrina

Paco De Lucia, Jimi Hendrix, Ali Farke Toure, Ry Cooder, Salif Kaita, Lionel Loueke, Kora Music, Oud Music, Gnawan

the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Gillian Welch, Liquid Tension Experiment, John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Bill Evans, Scott Lofaro, Charles Mingus, Bjork, Radiohead, Meshuggah, At The Drive-In, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, the Jackson 5, Arcade Fire, the Police, J.S. Bach, Joanna Newsom, Jim Black, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brad Mehldau, Thomas Morgan, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Keith Jarrett, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, David Lynch, Andy Kaufman, chess, food