Romani (Gypsy) music of Eastern Europe. Especially the folk songs of the Olah branch from Hungary and Transylvania. For CDs of this genre, the band Kalyi Jag (Black Fire) has two very good ones,
Lungoj o Drom Angla Mande released in America as "I Have Still a Long Way to Go", but a better translation would be "Long is the Road Yet Ahead of Me". The other is
Karingszo Me Phirav", in America "Where I Come and Go" (Where I Travel To and Fro).
The Balkan Gypsy Brass Bands. Boban Markovic is a great one.
Flamenco guitar of Paco del Gastor.
Eric Clapton
Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák.
Instruments I like are the duduk, the middle eastern violin, saz, ud.
American country blues (Memphis Minnie)
Rembetika
EDIT: Couldn't let this go without mentioning Grigoraş Dinicu and Jascha Heifetz.
Updated On: 6/6/08 at 04:13 PM