Booker Ervin (jazz tenor saxophonist)
Los Lobos (American rock group)
Tom Verlaine / Television (an acquired taste)
Robin Trower (English rock guitarist)
Covers of tunes by Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk
Pat Metheny (American jazz guitarist and composer)
Funky and/or smooth stuff by artists such as Steps Ahead, Rick Braun, Patrick O’Hearn, and John Scofield

Also, every time Biber’s Violin Partita No. 7 in C Minor comes to play in my shuffle I am astonished by how contemporary it sounds. I especially recommend Lina Tur Bonet’s 2022 recording on Glossa.