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My Influences

By Richard Lewis
December 7, 2011
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I find it funny when reviewers assert my influences; they are never correct and I'd prefer to acknowledge my sources. So here is a list of the music that helped inspire my forthcoming album, You Are Here. The whole list makes me euphoric, but highlights for me would be Jack DeJohnette's fevered drumming on "Down San Diego Way" and Andy Sheppard's seductive soprano on "Sol." Tomasz Stańko's trumpet similarly slays me: rich, magnificent and tragic like a crumbling empire. I don't say my music sounds like this—if only—but this is what makes me want to write.

Track	Name	Time	Artist	Album
1	Sol	8:57	Andy Sheppard	Andy Sheppard
2	Celebration	7:51	Bheki Mseleku	Celebration
3	Aneba	5:59	Kenny Wheeler	One of Many
4	Sleep Safe and Warm (Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby)	3:10	Tomasz Stanko Septet	Litania
5	The Burning Babe	3:43	Kathryn Tickell	Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical
6	Lovely joan	6:34	Danny Thompson	Whatever
7	Beauty Queen / Horses	6:07	Tori Amos	Boys for Pele
8	Sleepwalkers	5:16	David Sylvian	Sleepwalkers
9	Se equivoco la paloma	2:18	Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin	Asturiana—Songs from Spain and Argentina
10	Down San Diego Way	7:48	Arthur Blythe	Lenox Avenue Breakdown

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