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

These are my favorite Jazz-Rock Fusion keyboard players from 1966 through 1980 (In the order of my preference and esteem as Jazz-Rock Fusion performers):

1. Chick Corea / Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann, Hubert Laws, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Gary Burton, Return to Forever, self/solo

2. Jozef Skrzek / Niemen, SBB
3. Tomás Berka / Fermáta, Pavol Hammel
4. Joachim Kühn / Rolf Kühn, self/solo, Association P.C., Toto Blanke, Jan Akkerman
5. Mike Ratledge / The Soft Machine
6. Karl Jenkins / Nucleus, The Soft Machine, Adiemus
7. Larry Young (Khalid Yasin) / organist on Emergency! Love Devotion Surrender, Venusian Summer, Lawrence of Newark and Spaceballs
8. Lonnie Liston Smith
9. Brain Auger
10. Dave Stewart / Egg, Kahn, Hatfield And The North, National Health, Bruford

11. Rainer Brüninghaus / Eberhard Weber, ECM
12. Wlodek Gulgowski / self, Michal Urbaniak
13. Alan Pasqua / The New Tony Williams Lifetime, Eddie Money, Bob Dylan, Santana, Allan Holdsworth
14. Ann Ballester / Édition Spécial
15. Harold "Ivory" Williams / MFSB, Miles Davis, Michal Urbaniak
16. Japser Van't Hoff / Association P.C., Lol Coxhill, Chris Hinze, John Lee & Gerry Brown, Philip Catherine, Toto Blanke, Marc Moulin, Jan Akkerman, self
17. Herbie Hancock 
18. Joe Sample / The (Jazz) Crusaders
19. Alain Mion / Cortex
20. Martin Kratochvíl / self, Jazz Q

21. Don Grolnick / Dreams, Friends, Melissa Manchester, The Brecker Brothers, Ron Carter, David Sanborn, George Benson, Steely Dan, David Spinozza, The Manhattan Transfer
22. Allan Zavod / Maynard Ferguson, Mike Gibbs & Gary Burton, Jean-Luc Ponty
23. José "Kitflus" Mas / Iceberg, Max, Los Amaya
24. Stu Goldberg / John Lee & Gerry Brown, Toto Blanke's Electric Circus
25. Onaje Allan Gumbs / Norman Connors, Lenny White, Roy Ayers, Phyllis Hyman, Bennie Maupin, Woody Shaw
26. Beppe Crovella / Arti E Mestieri
27. Franco D'Andrea / Perigeo 
28. Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew)
29. Eumir Deodato
30. Mike Mandel / Larry Coryell, The Eleventh House

31. Janusz Grzywacz / Laboratorium, Zbigniew Seifert
32. Steve Barber / Electromagnets
33. Ralph Towner
34. Jerry Peters
35. Hermann Szobel
36. Gregg Rolie / Santana
37. Georg Eckl / Exil
38. Patrizio Fariselli / Area
39. Demetrio Stratos / voice & keyboards for AREA
40. Nikola Dimusevski / Leb I Sol

41. Jimmy "Hammond" Smith
42. Bob James
43. Tom Coster / Santana
44. Richard Kermode / Malo, Betty Davis, Santana
45. Hennes Hering / Out Of Focus, Sahara
46. Brynjulf Blix / Moose Loose
47. Burkard Schmidl / Missus Beastly
48. Adam Makowicz / Michael Urbaniak, Urszula Dudziak, self
49. Robin Lumley / Isotope, Eddie Howell, Brand X, Gary Boyle
50. George Duke

Also considered:
- Clare Fischer
- Joe Zawinul / Miles Davis, Weather Report
- Jan Hammer / Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, solo
- Barry Miles / Al Di Meola
- Patrick Gleeson / Herbie Hancock, Lenny White
- David Sancious
- Dave Gruisin
- Ramsey Lewis

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