My Favorite Jazz-Rock Fusion Musicians from the "Classic Era": The Guitar Players

These are my favorite Jazz-Rock Fusion guitarists from 1966 through 1980:

1. John McLaughlin / Lifetime, Miles Davis, solo, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti

2. Jan Akkerman / Brainbox, Focus, solo, Tony Scott, Joachim Kühn
3. Janne Schaffer
4. John Abercrombie / Dreams, Barry Miles, Gato Barbieri, Friends, Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Atmospheres, Michael Urbaniak, Neiman, Rava, Collin Walcott, Ralph Towner, McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson, Peter Erskine, self and lots of trios 
5. Corrado Rustici / Melos, Nova, solo
6. Carlos Santana / Santana, Illuminations (with Alice Coltrane), Love Devotion Surrender (with John McLaughlin)
7. Allan Holdsworth / 'Igginbottom, Nucleus, The Soft Machine, Tempest, Tony Williams' New Lifetime, Pierre Moerlen"s Gong, John Stevens, Jean-Luc Ponty, Bruford, UK, Gordon Beck, Solo 
8. Jukka Tolonen
9. Eef Albers / Toots Thielemans, John Lee & Gerry Brown/Medusa, Focus
10. Ray Gomez / La Mosca, Lenny White (guitar on "Mating Drive"), Larry Young's Fuel, Patrick Moraz, Deodato, Stanley Clarke, John Lee & Gerry Brown, and many Narada Michael Walden albums

11. Jay Graydon / Don Ellis, Gino Vannelli, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan, The Manhattan Transfer
12. Earl Klugh / solo, Bob James
13. Volker Kriegel 
14. Toto Blanke / The Chris Hinze Project
15. Joe Caro / Michal Urbaniak
16. Frantisek Griglák / Fermáta
17. Joaquin Lievano / Jean-Luc Ponty
18. Gary Boyle / Brian Auger, Keith Tippett, The Barrow Poets, Stomu Yamash'ta, Isotope, solo
19. Frank Zappa
20. Al Di Meola / Return to Forever, Solo

21. Larry Coryell / Free Spirits, Gary Burton, solo, (The Eleventh House), w/Michal Urbaniak
22. Apostolis Anthimos / SBB
23. Jukka Hauru
24. Hiram Bullock
25. Sigi Schwaub
26. Joaquín "Max" Sunyer / Iceberg 
27. Daryl Stuermer / Jean-Luc Ponty, Genesis
28. Bill Connors / RTF, Solo
29. Terje Rypdal / George Russell, self/solo
30. Vlatko Stefanovski / Leb I Sol

31. Larry Carlton / The (Jazz) Crusaders, Steely Dan, self/solo
32. Radomir Mihailović / Smak
33. Jay Berliner
34. John Tropea
35. Jukka Tolonen
36. Ralph Towner
37. Philip Catherine
38. Steve Kahn
39. George Benson 
40. Adrian Guillery / Jeremy & The Satyrs

Also considered:
- Chet Atkins
- Denny Diaz / Steely Dan
- Pat Metheny
- Doug Rodriguez / guitar on Caravanserai, "Mating Drive", Giants, 
- Lee Ritenour 
- Gabor Szabo  
- Peter Maunu 
- Dominic Miller / Sting
- Neal Schon / Santana, Journey
- Eric Gale / Bob James, 
- Mick Goodrick / Gary Burton, Joe Farrell


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