I LOVE JAZZ (Big Band in particular, Count Basie, Benny Goodman)
I LOVE R and B and Soul (Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Big Joe Turner, Motown)
I LOVE 1950's DooWop and ROCK and ROLL
I LOVE FUNK (James Brown mostly)
I LOVE VOCALS (Sinatra, Ella, Dinah)
I LOVE THE BLUES (Etta, B.B. King, Sonny Bo WIlliamson)
I LOVE Hip HOP (backspun breakbeats, mostly 80s MCs)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, D'Angelo, The Blues, Big Joe Turner, The Funk Brothers, Big Daddy Kane, Mary Wells, Toni Tone Tony, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Miles Davis, Artie Shaw, Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Lester Young, ERIC B. AND RAKIM, Fred Wesley and The JBs, Michael Jackson, PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, The Beatles, Kanye West, The Ronnettes, GANGSTARR, 1950s-60s Doo Wop, Slow Jams from any ERA, Etta James, Brenton Wood, sarah vaughn, Glenn Miller, Anita O'day, Prince, KRS ONE, Al Green, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Joe Williams, Little Jackie, Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, DJ PREMIER, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Jordan, Harry James, Helen Forrest, Duke Ellington, Kitty Daisy & Lewis
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing..