As much as I like most everybody on your list, I have to agree with Kevin about singers. Lyrics tend to distract me. By the way, if you are going to use camel notation on Benny GoodMan, shouldn't you also have Louis ArmStrong, and Hoagy CarMicheal, Cyrus ChestNut etc? Oh, and since you are also naming singers, here's one you forgot - Madeleine Peyroux. You reminded my by naming Cyrus Chestnut because he played on her first CD. In fact, her first CD had some real talent backing her up. Cyrus, James Carter, Marcus Printup, to name a few. And where the heck are Carter and Printup on your list anyway? I mean as long as you're listing an entire library and all. ;)

>>Here are my CDs when working...basically anything by:
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>>Charlie Parker
>>Pat Metheny
>>Wes Montgomery
>>Lester Young
>>Sonny Stitt
>>John Coltrane
>>Dave Matthews (my one exception to lyrics....if I need to get myself pumped, DMB helps)
>>Lee Morgan
>>Sonny Stitt
>>Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
>>Cannonball Adderly
>>Woodie Shaw
>>Wayne Shorter
>>Herbie Hancock
>>Yellowjackets
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>Agreed. Plus I would add some other favorites:
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>Oscar Peterson
>Count Basie
>Art Tatum
>Ella
>Duke Ellington
>Louis Armstrong
>Gerry Mulligan
>Charlie Parker
>Dizzie Gillespie
>Chet Baker
>Fats Waller
>Benny Carter
>Benny GoodMan
>Scott Joplin
>Bill Evans
>Monti Alexander
>Dave Brubeck
>Hoagy Carmichael
>Cyrus Chestnut
>Harry Connick, Jr.
>Brad Mehldau
>Bud Powell
>Chick Corea
>Eliane Elias
>Diana Krall
>Tommy Flanagan
>McCoy Tyner
>Antonio Carlos Jobim
>Dave Grusin
>Vince Guaraldi
>Earl Hines
>Keith Jarrett
>Chet Atkins
>Ahmad Jamal
>Winton Kelly
>Norah Jones
>Michel Petrucciani
>Lennie Tristano
>Oscar Alemán
>George Benson
>Kenny Burrell
>Al Di Meola
>Earl Klugh
>Django Reinhardt
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>"Jazz is American Classical Music"