Who I'm listening to (all genres):
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong (not only his singing, but his early Dixieland stuff)
Bobby McFerrin
Chick Corea (piano and vocal compositions)
Bobby McFerrin & Chick Corea
Shirley Horn
Manhattan Transfer (Jazz/Rock Vocal Group)
Dizzy Gillespe
Charlie Parker
Art Tatum (piano)
Duke Ellington
Thelonias Monk
Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma (celloist)
Buddy Rich and Max Roach album (both drummers)
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (jazz vocal group)
- their album of Basie tunes sung vocally is incredible!!
New York Voices (jazz vocal group)
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald (together)
John Coltrane
also:
Janis Joplin
Janet Jackson
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Boyz to Men (I actually don't have anything of theirs, but I like them)
Tracy Chapman
can't seem to part with my old Olivia Newton John tapes,
though I rarely listen to them
Take Six (accapella vocal group - sort of gospel, bluesy, jazzy)
Count Basie
old Dixieland (grandfather's old records) Dixie Rebels I think
Scott Joplin (Ragtime)
Meade "Lux" Lewis (Boogie Woogie (or Blues) Piano)
Billie Holiday
James P. Johnson (Stride Piano - grew out of Ragtime)
I still like the REAL Van Halen (with D.L.R.)
Rush (esp. old Rush)
Coleman Hawkins
Randy Crawford (I only have one song on tape, but goint to get more)
Dave Brubeck
Bach
Mozart
Dianne Schuur (album Blues for Schuur)
Lou Rawls (Blues/Jazz)
album The Great Jazz Vocalists sing Ellington and Strayhorn (sort of
Ellington's alter-ego) - they thought alike, wrote alike, played alike...
[Blue Note]
I like Nine Inch Nails, but don't actually have anything
there's more, but I don't want to write a book - these are my alltime faves
(so far)
My ears have yet to enter the Acid Jazz realm...