Living or dead in no particular order: 1. Late-period Coltrane (after Love Supreme, earlier is good too) 2. Joe Maneri 3. Matt Maneri 4. Robert Dick 5. Eric Dolphy 6. Ravi Shankar 7. Miya Masoaka 8. Shawn Lane 9. Stewart Dempster 10. John Zorn How about you?