sentences:  He listened to the Jazz Crusaders, Jimmy Smith, and Miles Davis, but "Misterioso" by Thelonious Monk got his attention most at the age of 16.He learned about ragtime from his teacher, stride pianist Buck Evans.In the early 1970s, he moved to San Francisco and performed a wide range of material, which can be heard on his debut album, "There's Something for Everyone in America", on Kicking Mule Records.