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. Eef Albers / Toots Thielemans, John Lee & Gerry Brown/Medusa, Focus
9. 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
10. Jay Graydon / Don Ellis, Gino Vannelli, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan, The Manhattan Transfer

11. Earl Klugh / solo, Bob James
12. Volker Kriegel 
13. Toto Blanke / The Chris Hinze Project
14. Joe Caro / Michal Urbaniak
15. Frantisek Griglák / Fermáta
16. Joaquin Lievano / Jean-Luc Ponty
17. Gary Boyle / Brian Auger, Keith Tippett, The Barrow Poets, Stomu Yamash'ta, Isotope, solo
18. Frank Zappa
19. Al Di Meola / Return to Forever, Solo
20. Larry Coryell / Free Spirits, Gary Burton, solo, (The Eleventh House), w/Michal Urbaniak

21. Apostolis Anthimos / SBB
22. Jukka Hauru
23. Hiram Bullock
24. Sigi Schwaub
25. Joaquín "Max" Sunyer / Iceberg 
26. Daryl Stuermer / Jean-Luc Ponty, Genesis
27. Bill Connors / RTF, Solo
28. Terje Rypdal / George Russell,
29. Vlatko Stefanovski / Leb I Sol
30. Jay Berliner

Also considered:
- Larry Carlton / The (Jazz) Crusaders, Steely Dan, self/solo
- John Tropea
- Jukka Tolonen
- Ralph Towner
- Pat Metheny
- Doug Rodriguez / guitar on Caravanserai, "Mating Drive", Giants, 
- Philip Catherine
- Lee Ritenour 
- Steve Kahn
- Gabor Szabo  
- George Benson  
- Peter Maunu 
- Dominic Miller / Sting
- Neal Schon / Santana, Journey
- Eric Gale / Bob James, 
- Denny Diaz / Steely Dan
- Mick Goodrick / Gary Burton, Joe Farrell


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