INFLUENCE is a tribute to my teachers who influenced me, whose music inspired me and whose work I grew up with. I have never met many of them in real life, and yet they are close to me, they became close friends. It emerged in a state of gratitude, or a higher-vibration energy that took me from the dimension of physical laws - gravity, attraction, and polarity - to the higher sphere of time and ideas. The compositions form the building blocks of my bridge between the worlds of matter and those of the spirit, the linear and the present time. INFLUENCE is actually the result of the touch of my soul with those of the most wonderful Jazz musicians to bow to and expression of my unconditional love for them.