• Moodswing
  This is my vocal jazz quintet.
  
• North Sea Jazz Festival
  Den Haag, Holland, this  monster Jazz Festival  motivated the creation of Moodswing.
  
• Crissy Field
  A jewel in San Francisco, a favorite Ford Family spot to ride bikes, walk the dog, and marvel at the Golden Gate Bridge.
  
• Ella Fitzgerald
  My greatest musical inspiration and influence, regret I never met her.
  
• One Trick Pony
  My favorite album, Paul Simon's 1980 album exerted a powerful early influence.
  
• Patton
  Greatest film of all time! Have watched this with my dad maybe 20 times. . . .
  
• Accu-Radio
  Streaming music ("Swingin' Pop Standards") at work and as I type this.
  
• Hans-Georg Gadamer,  Stanley Fish, and William Warren Bartley III
  Philosophical Hermeneutics, Reader Response Theory, and Pan Critical Rationalism fueled my fascination with constraint and possibility in graduate school.