My band: Environmental Encroachment - aka The EE Marching Band):
A Raging Good time with horns, drums, costumes, antics.
http://www.encroach.net

Funk and Contemp
Bootsy Collins (my all-time fav), Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley and the George Clinton's parliament/funkadelic p-funk mob.Fishbone!, James Brown, the JB's, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Black Bear Combo, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, All-American Anti-War Marching Band, Astral Trapeze, Electric Medicine, Jungle Street Rockers (hon. member), Ferdinand Fox, Johnny Cash, Hungry March Band, Vince Herman and Great American Taxi, Extreme Elvis, Smiths, Cantina and Darth Vader songs from SW, Lexxus, dj Wil B I, dj L.A. Jesus, Hazy Loper, Zappa, Slave, FreakyStyly era red-hots, Tom Waits, early Pink Floyd, Public Enemy, Frankie Capri, March Fourth, Hungry March Band, Black Bear Combo, HONK fest bands!..

Jazz
Thelonious Monk (tied with Bootsy for favorite), Miles Davis, Louis Armstong, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Kahil El-Zabar, Fela Kuti, Sun Ra, Coltrane, Oscar de Leon, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Mingus, Roswell Rudd, Rebirth Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, Golden Eagles, Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Professor Longhair.

Islands and World:
Los Munequitos de Mantanzas, Afro-Cuba, Lee Scratch Perry, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, the Congos, Abysinnians, Israel Vibrations, Black Uhuru, Rockers Soundtrack!, Jacob Miller, John Santos, Afri-Caribe, Olodum, world drum styles like Taiko, Haitian, Dominican GaGa and Merengue, Congas and Moroccan Tabl and Bendir, Trakia All-Stars, Hassan Hakmoun, Berber/Gnaowa music from Moroq, Master Musicians of Ains-Mehen, Master Musicians of Joujouka, Femi Kuti. Augustus Pablo, Sidi Goma. Trombone Trance.
Nawlins Heroes, Q and Miss P, Brassessss
EA, HMB, IRO, and the contemp march band scene...