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):

- 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

- 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

- Carole Kaye (The Wrecking Crew)

- James Jamerson / Motown's Funk Brothers
- Eberhard Weber / Wolfgang Dauner, Gorge Gruntz, Michael Naurer Quartet, The Art Van Damme Quintet, Baden Powell, Volker Kriegel, Gary Burton, solo / ECM appearances
- Ralphe Armstrong / Mahavishnu Orchestra (second incarnation), Jean-Luc Ponty, Michael Henderson
- John Lee / Chris Hinze, Gerry Brown, Toto Blanke
- Roy Babbington / Nucleus/Ian Carr/Chris Spedding, The Soft Machine
- Stanley Clarke / Pharoah Sanders, Return To Forever, Norman Connors, Deodato, self, Al DiMeola
- Percy Jones / Brian Eno, Nova, Brand X
- Pee Wee Ford / Oneness Of Juju, Michal Urbaniak, Lonnie Liston Smith
- 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.
- Eddie Gomez / Bill Evans, Jeremy Steig, Bennie Wallace, Chick Corea
- Dave Holland / Miles Davis, Karl Berger, Jack DeJohnette, Gateway, Colin Walcott, et al.
- Jaco Pastorius / Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Weather Report
- Marcus Miller / Lonnie Liston Smith, Miles Davis
- Paul Jackson / Eddie Fisher, Azteca, Herbie Hancock, The Head Hunters, self/solo, Santana
- Buster Williams / Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Roy Ayers, The Jazz Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Harold Mabern, Dexter Gordon, Joe Farrell, McCoy Tyner 
- Ron Carter / Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Gil Evans, Art Blakey, Coleman Hawkins, bass on Pieces of a Man, Believe It!
- Miroslav Vitous / solo, Weather Report
- Randy Tico / Matrix, Flora Purim & Airto Moreira
- Louis Johnson / Billy Preston, Herbie Hancock (Man-Child), Quincy Jones, The Brothers Johnson, Earl Klugh, Harvey Mason. Gabor Szabo, Bob James
- Jeff Berlin / Patrick Moraz, Ray Barretto, Bruford, Alan Holdsworth
- Al Anderson / Lonnie Liston Smith
- Alphonso Johnson / Weather Report, Billy Cobham, George Duke, solo
- Ladislav Lučenič / Fermáta
- Tom Fowler / Jean-Luc Ponty
- Norbert Dömling / Toto Blanke's Electric Circus
- Gilles Douieb / Chute Libre
- Tetsuo Sakurai / Casiopea
- Steve Swallow / Gary Burton 
- Michael Visceglia / Hermann Szobel
- Anton Jaro / Fermáta
- Rick Laird / Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Patrick Djivas / Area
- Will Lee / Bob James
- François Grillot / Édition Spéciale
- Jean Grevet / Cortex
- Mike Howlett / Gong
- Hansford Rowe / Pierre Moerlen's Gong
- Basil Ferrington / Michal Urbaniak
- Pawel Jarzebski / Michal Urbaniak
- 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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