Shit, now I get to show my age.
First and foremost, the vast majority of what I listen to is live recordings such as....
the good ol' Grateful Dead. I am surprised no one mentioned them yet. You can't go wrong with any of the 73 live recordings they put out (this is not counting anything released as mp3's, check out the holy scriptures known as 2 From the Vault and Dicks' Picks 4).
JGB - My Funny Valentine, Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Weir/Kingfish/Ratdog - just about anything
Santana - Lotus (Europa), Moonflower (Europa), and Buddy Miles (As the years go passing by).
Yes - anything live
FZ - any You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, FZ Guitar, Shut Ups.
Humble Pie - Performance, Rockin' The Fillmore (I Walk on Gilded Splinters)
Mountain - Twin Peaks (Nantucket Sleighride, Theme For An Imaginary Western so beautiful it will make you cry)
Hot Tuna - Jack and Jorma from The Airplane
Genesis but only with Peter Gabriel (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Foxtrot/Nursery Crime)
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - a Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World medley so beautiful it will make you cry
Roxy Music - Do The Strand, Both Ends Burning, A Song For Europe
Allman Bros. - Eat a Peach, Live At Fillmore East (can't get enough of Mountain Jam)
Dylan - just about anything
The Band - ditto
Festival Express (a concert docunentary featuring the Dead, the Band, Janis, Buddy Guy, etc....touring southern Canada)
Stomu Yamashta's Go - all star band with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Michael Schrieve
Al Di Meola, Di Meola-Mc Laughlin-De Lucia (tha acoustic super trio, may be too fast to hear)
Return to Forever - early Al Di Meola (with Chick Corea, Stanley Clark, Lenny White)
Travelling Wilburys - 3 albums, every song is at least great
The Clash - London Calling
Pearl Jam - any of the fuck the concert promoters live recordings
David Bowie - pick em
Jimmy Buffett - try to see him live b4 you slam this pick
Billy Joel - Theme For An Italian Restaurant
Pfunk - funk did not exist b4 them
Miles Davis - pick em
Dizzy Gillespie - ditto
Max Roach - ditto, imo the greatest dummer who ever lived, by himself he does what gd or abb does with 2 drummers
Art Ensemble of Chicago - it does not get any spacier
Lester Bowie - Gods' trumpet player
Floyd - Sid material preferred
Muddy Waters - anything
Buddy Guy - ditto
Willie Dixon - ditto
SRV - died way too young
Irakare - A Cuban all star jazz band (when they played the Chicago Jazz Festival they blew the headliner OFF THE STAGE)
Beuna Vista Social Club - a documentary film about Ry Cooder gathering aging Cuban musicians and touring with them, they are amazing
The preceding is far from complete but is a decent snapshot of what gives me eargasms.