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

These are my favorite Jazz-Rock Fusion bass players from 1966 through 1980 (In some semblance of order):

1. Anthony Jackson / Billy Paul, MFSB, Buddy Rich, The O'Jays, Funk Factory, Norman Connors, Roberta Flack, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Lalo Schifrin, Harvey Mason, Lee Ritenour, Joe Farrell, Michal Urbaniak, Steve Khan, Jun Fukamachi, David Spinozza, Earl Klugh, Eric Gale, Chaka Khan, Teo Macero, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Terumasa Hino, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Gato Barbieri, Masaru Imada, George Benson, Tania Maria, Peabo Bryson, Hiromi Uehara

2. Chuck Rainey / King Curtis, The Rascals, Hubert Laws, Yusef Lateef, Aretha Franklin, Gene Ammons, Larry Coryell, Roberta Flack, Quincy Jones, Gato Barbieri, The Voices Of East Harlem, Steely Dan

3. Carole Kaye (The Wrecking Crew)

4. James Jamerson / Motown's Funk Brothers
5. Eberhard Weber / Wolfgang Dauner, Gorge Gruntz, Michael Naurer Quartet, The Art Van Damme Quintet, Baden Powell, Volker Kriegel, Gary Burton, solo / ECM appearances
6. Ralphe Armstrong / Mahavishnu Orchestra (second incarnation), Jean-Luc Ponty, Michael Henderson
7. John Lee / Chris Hinze, Gerry Brown, Toto Blanke
8. Roy Babbington / Nucleus/Ian Carr/Chris Spedding, The Soft Machine
9. Stanley Clarke / Pharoah Sanders, Return To Forever, Norman Connors, Deodato, self, Al DiMeola
10. Percy Jones / Brian Eno, Nova, Brand X

11. Pee Wee Ford / Oneness Of Juju, Michal Urbaniak, Lonnie Liston Smith
12. Doug Rauch / Bunky and Jake, Carly Simon, Voices Of East Harlem, (San Francisco) Giants, Santana Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender, Welcome and Lotus, Azteca, Lenny White's Venusian Summer, and Billy Cobham's Life & Times.
13, Eddie Gomez / Bill Evans, Jeremy Steig, Bennie Wallace, Chick Corea
14. Dave Holland / Miles Davis, Karl Berger, Jack DeJohnette, Gateway, Colin Walcott, et al.
15. Jaco Pastorius / Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Weather Report
16. Marcus Miller / Lonnie Liston Smith, Miles Davis
17. Paul Jackson / Eddie Fisher, Azteca, Herbie Hancock, The Head Hunters, self/solo, Santana
18. Ron Carter / Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Gil Evans, Art Blakey, Coleman Hawkins, bass on Pieces of a Man, Believe It!
19. Buster Williams / Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Roy Ayers, The Jazz Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Harold Mabern, Dexter Gordon, Joe Farrell, McCoy Tyner 
20. Miroslav Vitous / solo, Weather Report

21. Randy Tico / Matrix, Flora Purim & Airto Moreira
22. Louis Johnson / Billy Preston, Herbie Hancock (Man-Child), Quincy Jones, The Brothers Johnson, Earl Klugh, Harvey Mason. Gabor Szabo, Bob James
23. Jeff Berlin / Patrick Moraz, Ray Barretto, Bruford, Alan Holdsworth
24. Al Anderson / Lonnie Liston Smith
25. Alphonso Johnson / Weather Report, Billy Cobham, George Duke, solo
26. Ladislav Lučenič / Fermáta
27. Tom Fowler / Jean-Luc Ponty
28. Norbert Dömling / Toto Blanke's Electric Circus
29. Gilles Douieb / Chute Libre
30. Tetsuo Sakurai / Casiopea

31. Steve Swallow / Gary Burton 
32. Michael Visceglia / Hermann Szobel
33. Anton Jaro / Fermáta
34. Rick Laird / Mahavishnu Orchestra
35. Patrick Djivas / Area
36. Will Lee / Bob James
37. François Grillot / Édition Spéciale
38. Jean Grevet / Cortex
39. Mike Howlett / Gong
40. Hansford Rowe / Pierre Moerlen's Gong

41.  Basil Ferrington / Michal Urbaniak
42. Pawel Jarzebski / Michal Urbaniak
43. Randy Jackson / Eddie Henderson

Also considered:
- Gary Peacock / Miles Davis, 
- Tony Levin / John Lennon, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson 
- Michael Henderson / Miles Davis

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