• David Bowie: The Konrads, The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third, The Buzz, The Riot Squad
• Bruce Springsteen: The Rogues, The Castiles, Earth, Steel Mill, Dr. Zoom & the Sonic Boom, The Sundance Blues Band, The Bruce Springsteen Band
• Neil Young: The Jades, The Squires, Mynah Birds, Buffalo Springfield
• Prince: 94 East
• Kanye West: The Go-Getters
• Miles Davis: Rhumboogie Orchestra, Billy Eckstine Orchestra, Herbie Fields's Band, Charlie Parker's Quintet, Reboppers, Benny Carter Big Band, Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band
• Jimi Hendrix: Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, The Velvetones, The Rocking Kings, The Casuals, The King Kasuals, The I.B. Specials, The Upsetters, Curtis Knight & the Squires, Joey Dee and the Starliters, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames
• Marvin Gaye: The Dippers, The D.C. Tones, The Marquees, Harvey and the New Moonglows
• Elvis Costello: Rusty, Flip City
• Stevie Wonder: Stevie and John
• Madonna: Breakfast Club, Emmy and the Emmys
• Michael Jackson: The Jackson Brothers, The Jackson 5, The Jacksons
• Van Morrison: The Sputniks, Midnight Special, Deanie Sands and the Javelins, The Monarchs, The Harry Mack Showband, The Great Eight, The International Monarchs, The Manhattan Showband, Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles, The Gamblers, Them
• Aretha Franklin: The Soul Stirrers
• Björk: Spit and Snot, Exodus, Jam80, Tappi Tíkarrass, Rokka Rokka Drum, Gott kvöld, Kukl, The Elgar Sisters, Sykurmolarnir, The Sugarcubes
• James Brown: The Ever-Ready Gospel Singers, The Avons, Toccoa Band, The Flames, The Famous Flames
• John Coltrane: The Melody Masters, Jimmy Heath's Band, Miles Davis Quintet
• PJ Harvey: Bologne, The Polekats, Automatic Dlamini
• Beck: Youthless
• John Lennon: The Quarrymen, The Beatles
• Lou Reed: The Jades, The Primitives, The Velvet Underground
• Johnny Cash: The Landsberg Barbarians
• Duke Ellington: The Duke's Serenaders, Elmer Snowden and His Black Sox Orchestra, The Washingtonians
• Frank Sinatra: The Hoboken Four, Harry James and His Music Makers, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
• Chuck Berry: Johnnie Johnson Trio
• Frank Ocean: Odd Future
• Beyoncé: Girl's Tyme, Destiny's Child
• Otis Redding: Pat T. Cake and the Mighty Panthers, The Upsetters, Otis and His Shooters
• Brian Eno: The Black Aces, Merchant Taylor's Simultaneous Cabinet, The Maxwell Demon, Dandelion and the War Damage, Scratch Orchestra, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Roxy Music
• Elton John: The Corvettes, Bluesology
• Ray Charles: Charles Brantley's Honey Dippers, The McSon Trio
• Charles Mingus: Russell Jacquet's band, Howard McGhee's band, Lionel Hampton's band, Duke Ellington's band
• Sufjan Stevens: Marzuki, Con Los Dudes, Danielson
• Al Green: Al Greene & the Creations, Al Greene & the Soul Mates
• Nick Drake: The Perfumed Gardeners
• Eminem: New Jacks, Soul Intent, The Dirty Dozen
• Paul Simon: Tom & Jerry, Tico and the Triumphs, Simon & Garfunkel
• Louis Armstrong: Tuxedo Brass Band, Creole Jazz Band, Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
• Frank Zappa: The Blackouts, The Soots, The Muthers, The Soul Giants, The Mothers, The Mothers of Invention
• Thelonious Monk: Coleman Hawkins Quartet
• Peter Gabriel: The Milords, The Spoken Word, Garden Wall, Genesis
• Captain Beefheart: The Soots, The Magic Band
• Sam Cooke: The Singing Children, The Highway Q.C.'s, The Soul Stirrers
• Elliott Smith: Stranger Than Fiction, A Murder of Crows, Heatmiser
• Little Richard: Buster Brown's Orchestra, Perry Welch and His Orchestra, The Tempo Toppers, The Upsetters
• Curtis Mayfield: The Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers, The Alphatones, The Roosters, The Impressions
• Missy Elliott: Fayze, Sista
• Buddy Holly: Buddya and Jack, Buddy and Bob
• Tom Petty: Epics, Mudcrutch
• Ornette Coleman: The Jam Jivers, Pee Wee Crayton and His Orchestra, The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet
• Janis Joplin: The Waller Creek Boys, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Kozmic Blues Band
• Paul McCartney: The Quarrymen, Johnny and the Moondogs, Beatals, The Silver Beetles, Wings
• Dr. Dre: World Class Wreckin' Cru, N.W.A.
• Muddy Waters: James "Sweet Lucy" Carter and His Orchestra
• Ella Fitzgerald: Chick Webb's Orchestra
• St. Vincent: The Polyphonic Spree, The Skull Fuckers, Sufjan Stevens' backing band
• Rod Stewart: The Kool Kats, The Dimensions, Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions, Long John Baldry and His Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, Shotgun Express, The Jeff Beck Group, The Small Faces, Faces
• Dusty Springfield: The Lana Sisters, The Springfields
• The Notorious B.I.G.: The Old Gold Brothers, The Techniques
• Hank Williams: The Drifting Cowboys
• Angel Olsen: Good Fight, Bonnie "Prince" Billy's band
• Herbie Hancock: Miles Davis Quintet
• D'Angelo: Precise, I.D.U.
• Charlie Parker: Jay McShann's territory band, Earl Hines' band
• Jeff Buckley: Shinehead's band, Gods and Monsters
• Solange: Destiny's Child

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