Which Jazz Artist’s Influenced your Musical Taste?

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Bassists: Ray Brown, Christian McBride, Edgar Meyer, Stanley Clark, Ron Carter

Pianists: Keith Jarrett, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jessica Williams

Guitarists: Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny

Drummers: Jack DeJohnette, Art Blakey

Some of favorites not mentioned...Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Woody Shaw, Billy Harper, John McLaughlin, Bobby Hutcherson, Jackie McClean, Elvin Jones, Art Pepper, Scott LaFaro, Kenny Garrett, Pat Martino, Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow, Ralph Towner, NHOP, Sarah Vaughan, JoAnne Brackeen, Johnny Griffin, Dave Holland, Larry Young, Charles Tolliver, George Cables, Stanley Cowell, Charlie Haden, Mal Waldron, Vincent Herring, Booker Ervin, Joe Lovano, Clifford Jordan, Tina May, Helen Merrill, John Scofield, Chico Freeman, Grant Green, Jimmy Heath, Jackie Ryan, Miroslav Vitous, Lew Tabackin, Kenny Wheeler....

What jazz artist change my life ?

Very young Louis Armstrong whose dynamic made my heart and head swing happy...

but i did not get jazz till more more decades later...

Bill Evans listening in my car begun to give me a hint... It obsess me...

i was ready and Chet Baker push me overboard 35 years ago...

Since i learned slowly american but also world jazz...

In these three artist the heart dominate the playing ...Virtuosity count for nothing... They sing  and they speak,...

My favorite music was choral one all my life...

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Piano : Sonny Clark, Kenny Drew, Herbie Nichols, Fats Waller

Sax : Steve Lacy, Sonny Stitt, Lucky Thompson, Ike Quebec, Tina Brooks

Bass : Jimmy Blanton