Nina Simone, Eric Clapton, Howlin' Wolf, Led Zeppelin, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wes Montgomery, Aaron Copland, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bernard Herrmann, Bob Dylan, AC/DC, Leon Russell, Leon Redbone, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, The Weavers, John Coltrane, Miles & Thelonious, Dead Can Dance, Clifton Chienier, Danny Elfman, Billie Holliday, did I say Nina Simone ? a good double, MJQ, Chet Baker, Rolling Stones, Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos, Coleman Hawkins, Alanis Morissette, Art of Noise, Cat Stevens, Carole King, George Harrison, Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Randy Newman, Little Feet, Roy Orbison, Seal, The Moody Blues, Tom Waits, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley, Ben Webster, Ian & Sylvia, The Beau Brumels, The Whailer’s from Seattle, Donovan, The Outlaws, Aretha Franklin, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young and Neil Young and David Crosby, and Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, and Nielson, The Traveling Wilburys, George Lloyd, Charles Lloyd, and Pink Floyd, Pasty Cline …… Oh my there are just too many, but when a great one like Ray Charles dies it seems like music is dying – there just gone and nobody’s coming up – well then there’s Baaba Mall, Jiang Ting, Knut Reiersrud & Iver Kleive, Mickey Hart, oh jeez how could I forget R.E.M & Rickey Lee Jones – I’m tired now.
