Grateful Dead, Hot Buttered Rum, New Monsoon, Railroad Earth, Blue Turtle Seduction, Yonder Mountain String Band, ALO, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Karl Denson, New Mastersounds, any band that Sharon Gilchrist is in (i.e. Peter Rowan Quartet), Taarka, Neil Young, moe., Bob Marley and most roots rock reggae, Early Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, most hard bop, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Asleep at the Wheel, Pink Floyd, Grampa's Chili, Old Dead Bug, Blissninnies