| Influences | Mark's DRUMMING INFLUENCES include: Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Philly Joe Jones, Louis Hayes, Al Foster, Idris Muhammad, Bob Moses, Steve McCall, Jon Christensen, Bill Stewart, Victor Lewis, Ralph Peterson, Lenny White, Billy Hart, Don Alias, Steve Berrios, Willie Bobo, Jerry Gonzalez, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Jose "Papo" Rodriguez, Milton Cardona, Julito Collazo, Mongo Santamaria, Pancho Quinto, Changuito, Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussein, Trilok Gurtu, Clyde Stubblefield, John "Jabo" Starks, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, John Bonham, Bill Bruford and many others.
OTHER MUSIC INFLUENCES are: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charles Mingus, Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Sun Ra, Air, Eric Dolphy, Fort Apache Band, Harry Partch, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, old school hip-hop, Los Munequitos de Mantanzas, Arsenio Rodriguez, Ritmo Oriental, Irakere, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Hamza El Din, Kayhan Kalhor, Ghazal, Keith Jarrett, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Yes, King Crimson, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Samuel Barber, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen (electronic works), Gyorgy Ligeti and many, many others.
Some INFLUENCES OUTSIDE OF MUSIC are: Dogen Zenji, Huang Po, Shunryu Suzuki, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Rimbaud, John Fante, Henry Miller, Dante Alighieri, Dostoevsky, Alan Watts, D.T. Suzuki, Krishnamurti, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Rumi, Robert Farris Thompson, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Monty Python, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurasawa, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and many, many others.
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