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. 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 
4. Corrado Rustici / Melos, Nova, solo
5. Carlos Santana / Santana, Illuminations (with Alice Coltrane), Love Devotion Surrender (with John McLaughlin)
6.  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 

7. Eef Albers / Toots Thielemans, John Lee & Gerry Brown/Medusa, Focus
8.  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
9. Jay Graydon / Don Ellis, Gino Vannelli, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan, The Manhattan Transfer

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

The Next 10:
21. Hiram Bullock
22. Doug Rodriguez / guitar on Caravanserai, "Mating Drive", Giants, 
23. Joaquín "Max" Sunyer / Iceberg
24. Daryl Stuermer / Jean-Luc Ponty, Genesis
25. Bill Connors / RTF, Solo
26. Terje Rypdal / George Russell,
27. Vlatko Stefanovski / Leb I Sol
28. Larry Carlton / The (Jazz) Crusaders, Steely Dan
29. John Tropea
30. Jay Berliner

Also considered:
- Ralph Towner
- Pat Metheny
- 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


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