Jeff

Helluva thing to ask a musician about. Ok, here we go: Miles Davis, 311, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Art Pepper, Charlie Parker, Paul Chambers, Chick Corea, Incubus, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Grant Green, Dave Holland, Jurassic 5, Air, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Paco de Lucía, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Angélique Kidjo, Avishai Cohen, The Bad Plus, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall, Ben Folds, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Jim Hall, Biréli Lagrène, Blue Mitchell, Joe Henderson, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade, Roy Haynes, Cannonball Adderley, Christian McBride, Stephen Scott, Nicholas Payton, Terence Blanchard, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Cubapercussion & Klazzbrothers, The O'Jays, Dexter Gordon, The Temptations, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Duke Ellington, Earth Wind & Fire, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Esbjørn Svensson, Fred Hersch, Galactic, Soulive, Sam Kininger, Lettuce, John Scofield, Gary Burton, Sonny Clark, Greyboy, Horace Silver, Louis Johnson (the Brothers Johnson), Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, Bernard Edwards (Chic), The Isley Brothers, James Brown, J.J. Johnson, Jackie Wilson, Jamiroquai, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Kenny Wheeler, Led Zeppelin, Maktub, Marcus Miller, The Mars Volta, Muse, Maroon 5, The Meters, Milt Jackson, Moonraker, Mulgrew Miller, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Pat Martino, Wynton Kelly, Pepper Adams, and that's enough. Suffice to say that there's a lot of music I really dig (and I ignored classical stuff in this list!)