The Average White Band is a pretty good funk band that you may like.
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Anonymous2010-08-16 16:03
Frank Gambale.
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Anonymous2010-08-24 16:33
Django Reinhardt.
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Anonymous2010-08-27 7:44
A lot of the artists from the ECM label sound similar. (Eberhard Weber is an ECM artist.)
Check out Steve Tibbetts (all his early albums, especially Yr), Keith Jarrett (the Koln Concert is a good intro-album, tons of moody ambient piano playing)
Mahavishnu Orchestra and pretty much everything John McLaughlin's been involved with is great for fusion.
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Anonymous2010-09-05 0:53
If you're into jazz, do the obvious (Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian).
If you want a bit more contemporary, go for Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarret, and awesome guy called Don Friedman and Freddy Giuffre. There's lots of great music out there. You just have to dig a little.