Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: members.sibeliusmusic.com/mmorse
Influences: Thelonious Monk, Charles Ives, Steely Dan, Bill Evans, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Bobbie Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Billie McCoy, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane, Franz Kafka, Myk Freedman, Béla Bartók, Ravi Shankar, Glen Hall, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Beethoven, Haydn, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Eric Hughes, the Koutev Ensemble, Barnyard Drama, Gil Evans, Ellington/Strayhorn, Paul Chambers, Sonny Rollins, Steve Hall, Richard Wagner, Scott Thomson, Claude Debussy, Alban Berg, Tim & Molly, the Marx Brothers, Gary Peacock, Steve Swallow, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, James Brown, Georg Trakl, Rahsaan, Webern, Lennon/McCartney, Rob Clutton, Jason Hammer, Dave Chokroun, Fred Astaire, Bill Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, Carmen McRae, W.C. Fields, Rainer Maria Rilke, David Oistrakh, Gershwin, Joe Sorbara, Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, Terry King, Prokofiev, all the great improvisers in Toronto, Leadbelly, Stephen Blum, Claude Ranger, Edward Lear, Jane Fair, Preston Sturges, Dostoevsky, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Cannonball Adderley, Raymond Lukens, Bob Dorough, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Holman, Bach, Venda tshikona, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Stefan Wolpe, Ali Akhbar Khan, Percy Heath, Martin Heidegger, Spike Jones, Bud Powell, Bix Beiderbecke, Jay Anthony Gach, Jane Gardner, Bob Mover, the Avataar Collective, Zero Seven, Clifford Brown, the Bird and the Bee, Ligeti, Giorgio Agamben, Mark Evan Bonds, Kant, Wittgenstein, Zen, Paul Klee, Brecht
Sounds Like: klezmer played by kurdish mountain folk; kurdish folk music played by bartok; bartok played by jazz musicians; jazz played by klezmers
Type of Label: None