Originally Posted By: davidsch
For Jazz:

1) Miles Davis
2) John Coltrane
3) Charlie Parker
4) Louis Armstrong
5) Charles Mingus
6) Thelonius Monk
7) Dave Brubeck
8) Sonny Rollins
9) Stanley Turrentine
10) Joshua Redman

For Rock - I will go with the best acts that I have seen live (in no particular order):

1) The Rolling Stones
2) The Who
3) Queen (with Freddie Mercury)
4) Heart
5) Tori Amos
6) Sarah MacLachlan
7) Bob Seger
8) Tom Petty
9) Natalie Merchant
10) AC/DC


I forgot that I had seen AC/DC and they were much better than Styx.