Quote:Don't be shy NYC, you're the pro here, what sayeth you?

Haha. I tried to take the easy way out.

This is a really tough one for me. Largely because I have my all time favorites compartmentalized.

Obviously there's the genre issue. Then you've got the various roles to consider.

Composer? Musician? Vocalist? Arranger? Producer? Some combination of these?

It gets tricky very quickly.


This is a good place for a quote from a guy on my composers list. Duke Ellington.


"There are two kinds of music. The good kind and the other kind."


The good kind for me is anything that moves me emotionally - resonates with my own experience as a human - and sometimes just makes me wanna tap my foot or dance.

So it's a really wide range that defies genre, style, period or any other category.

I hesitate to list a bunch of names most folks have scarcely heard of with a smattering of the names already up here. (I dont want to come off like some snobby musician or hipster) but .... Here's a few.

Instrumentalist- John Coltrane

Stylist, innovator, arranger - Miles Davis

Songwriter/ lyricist - Bob Dylan

Blues based rocker/envelope pusher- Jimi Hendrix


I'll add a few more when I'm not so tired

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