Références : Gil Scott-Heron, Eddie Harris, Miles Davis, Meshell N'Degeocello, Jimmy Smith, Aimé Césaire, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Sonny Rollins, Tito Puente, Chico Buarque, Madlib, Chomsky, Charlie Mingus, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Alfred Panou, The Herbalisers, Roots Manuva, Féla Anikulapo Kuti, Le Super Rail Band du buffet hotel de la gare de Bamako, Le Super Biton de Ségou, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Erikha Badu, Ray Charles, Célia Cruz, Eddie Palmieri, Ebenezer Obey, Clifford Brown, Seun Anikulapo Kuti, Seu Jorge, Amadou Ballake, Bembeya Jazz, Etoile de Dakar, Gian Maria Testa, Léo Ferré, Naomi Klein, Jacques Brel, Gainsbourg, The Heptones, WEB DuBois, LeRoy Jones Amiri Baraka, Thomas Sankara, Claude McKay, Godard, Inaritu, Ebo Taylor, Billie Holiday, Baba Eto, Lorez Alexandria, Dudu Pukwana, Hugh Masekela, Carla Bley, Donald Byrd, Clifford Brown, Pete Rock, Common, Antibalas, Osita Osadebe, Sharon Jones, Aretha Franklin, Candi Staton, Lyn Collins, Blossom Dearie, Sun Ra, Oscar Brown Junior, Frantz Fanon, Edgar Morin, Howard Zinn, James Baldwin, George Orwell, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin gaye, D'Angelo, Paliament - Funkadelic, Pepper Adams, Salif Keita, Segun Bucknor, Franco et L'OK Jazz ("tu rentres ok tu sors ko"), L'Étoile de Dakar, Mory Kanté, Ali Farka Touré, Charlie Parker, David Murray, Shina Adewale, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Omar, Lee Perry, Francois Moutin, Steve Coleman, Zappa, Cal Tjader, James Brown, Eugene Mc Daniels, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Machito, Léon Damas, Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant...