The neverending jazz artist list! That's the beauty of the art form. So many artists travel in wide circles, so you end up saying "Wow... what a bass solo" find out who it was, look for more of their work and quickly find yourself in whole other circle of musicians.

I do the library shuffle thing. Everything from '20s Ellington to the latest White Stripes. Fun when The Rainbow Connection backs up against Sad But True. Classical suffers miserably when shuffled so that gets its own rotation (Beethoven sonatas, Mozart and Schubert symphonies, and Segovia for guitar flavor). Most of the time I only barely notice what's playing and rarely remember the last song that came on. I listen mainly to drown out other office noise. Hell is, after all, other people. Especially when those other people talk and eat and use the phone noisily.

>As you see I do like jazz :-)
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>I missed Monk and I'm sure I missed some others too.
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>Wait, yes, Manhattan Transfer comes to mind. Also Paquito D'Rivera, Tito Puente, Ray Charles and how could I forget Joe Sample!
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>I also have a lot of Blues, Brazilian and Celtic music too. And Classic Rock of course but jazz and celtic is what I listen the most to when working.