| Influences | James Baldwin,
Art Blakey,
Rev. James Cleveland,
John Coltrane,
Claudette Colvin,
Miles Davis,
Eric Dolphy,
W.E.B. Du Bois,
Duke Ellington,
Ralph Ellison,
Hotep Idris Galeta,
Coleman Hawkins,
Andrew Hill,
Abdullah Ibrahim,
Mahalia Jackson,
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Jackie McLean,
Charles Mingus,
Thelonious Monk,
E.D. Nixon,
Eugene O'Neill,
Outkast,
Charlie Parker,
Rosa Parks,
Bud Powell,
Public Enemy,
Max Roach,
Sonny Rollins,
The Roots,
McCoy Tyner,
August Wilson,
Malcolm X |
