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. Janne Schaffer
3. Jan Akkerman / Brainbox, Focus, solo, Tony Scott, Joachim Kühn
4. Jeff Beck
5. Jorge Strunz / Caldera, Strunz & Farah
6. Corrado Rustici / Melos, Nova, solo
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. Carlos Santana / Santana, Illuminations (with Alice Coltrane), Love Devotion Surrender (with John McLaughlin)
9. Jukka Tolonen
10. 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 

11. Eef Albers / Toots Thielemans, John Lee & Gerry Brown/Medusa, Focus
12. 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
13. Jay Graydon / Don Ellis, Gino Vannelli, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan, The Manhattan Transfer
14. Earl Klugh / solo, Bob James
15. Volker Kriegel 
16. Toto Blanke / The Chris Hinze Project
17. Joe Caro / Michal Urbaniak
18. Frantisek Griglák / Fermáta
19. Joaquin Lievano / Jean-Luc Ponty
20. Gary Boyle / Brian Auger, Keith Tippett, The Barrow Poets, Stomu Yamash'ta, Isotope, solo

21. Frank Zappa
22. Al Di Meola / Return to Forever, Solo
23. Larry Coryell / Free Spirits, Gary Burton, solo, (The Eleventh House), w/Michal Urbaniak
24. Apostolis Anthimos / SBB
25. Jukka Hauru
26. Sigi (Siegfreid) Schwaub / Wolfgang Dauner, Et Cetera, Embryo, Chris Hinze, Art Van Damme, George Shearing
27. Joaquín "Max" Sunyer / Iceberg 
28. Daryl Stuermer / Jean-Luc Ponty, Genesis
29. Bill Connors / RTF, Solo
30. Terje Rypdal / George Russell, self/solo

31. Radomir Mihailović / Smak
32. Pat Metheny / Gary Burton, Joni Mitchell, self/solo
33. Larry Carlton / The (Jazz) Crusaders, Steely Dan, self/solo
34. Vlatko Stefanovski / Leb I Sol
35. Jay Berliner / Harry Belafonte, Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, et al.
36. John Tropea / Eumir Deodato, Billy Cobham, Michael Franks, Paul Simon, Roberta Flack, Art Farmer, et al.
37. DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight / The Headhunters, Parliament/Funkadelic
38. Ralph Towner
39. Philip Catherine
40. Ray Parker, Jr. / Motown, Barry White, Herbie Hancock, Raydio

41. "Wah Wah" Watson (Melvin Ragin) / The Funk Brothers, Herbie Hancock 
42. Lee Ritenour
43. Steve Kahn
44. George Benson 
45. Adrian Guillery / Jeremy & The Satyrs

Also considered:
- Chet Atkins
- Denny Diaz / Steely Dan
- Hiram Bullock
- Doug Rodriguez / guitar on Caravanserai, "Mating Drive", Giants
- 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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