Graham Dechter - Major InfluenceMajor Influence is Graham Dechter's third release as a leader and reunites him with his "dream team" rhythm section of Tamir Hendelman on piano, John Clayton on bass and Jeff Hamilton on drums. Graham wrote and arranged all but one of the tunes, Pure Imagination which is thoughtfully rearranged by him and Jeff Hamilton. All the other tunes were composed as tribute to his major influences coming up as a young musician. They include Herb Ellis, George

The original score music is composed by Various artists

with one (or possibly two) of the theoretically romantic situations ending in death

workmanship with wisdom

and partially re-recorded

His mastery of the piano can be heard in his exceptional virtuosity and lyricism

while the atmosphere varies from the solemnly oriental to the ethereal

Marlene Dietrich

Debussy's dreamy evocation of the god Pan that also had it's origins in music for the stage

I owe half of everything I have today to Zanzibar

believed to have been drafted by Mozart as a young child

We Are Motörhead features a cover of the Sex Pistols song 'God Save The Queen' for which the band recorded a video atop an open top London Routemaster bus

depicting the doomed infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful