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


- 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
- Jozef Skrzek / Niemen, SBB
- Tomás Berka / Fermáta, Pavol Hammel
- Joachim Kühn / Rolf Kühn, self, Association P.C., Toto Blanke, Jan Akkerman
- Mike Ratledge / The Soft Machine
- Karl Jenkins / Nucleus, The Soft Machine, Adiemus
- Larry Young (Khalid Yasin) / organist on Emergency! Love Devotion Surrender, Venusian Summer, Lawrence of Newark and Spaceballs
- Lonnie Liston Smith
- Brain Auger
- Dave Stewart / Egg, Kahn, Hatfield And The North, National Health, Bruford
- Rainer Brüninghaus / Eberhard Weber, ECM
- Wlodek Gulgowski / self, Michal Urbaniak
- Alan Pasqua / The New Tony Williams Lifetime, Eddie Money, Bob Dylan, Santana, Allan Holdsworth
- Ann Ballester / Édition Spécial
- Harold "Ivory" Williams / MFSB, Miles Davis, Michal Urbaniak
- Japser Van't Hoff / Association P.C., Lol Coxhill, Chris Hinze, John Lee & Gerry Brown, Philip Catherine, Toto Blanke, Marc Moulin, Jan Akkerman, self
- Joe Sample / The (Jazz) Crusaders
- Alain Mion / Cortex
- Martin Kratochvíl / self, Jazz Q
- Don Grolnick / Dreams, Friends, Melissa Manchester, The Brecker Brothers, Ron Carter, David Sanborn, George Benson, Steely Dan, David Spinozza, The Manhattan Transfer
- Allan Zavod / Maynard Ferguson, Mike Gibbs & Gary Burton, Jean-Luc Ponty
- José "Kitflus" Mas / Iceberg, Max, Los Amaya
- Stu Goldberg / John Lee & Gerry Brown, Toto Blanke's Electric Circus
- Onaje Allan Gumbs / Norman Connors, Lenny White, Roy Ayers, Phyllis Hyman, Bennie Maupin, Woody Shaw
- Beppe Crovella / Arti E Mestieri
- Franco D'Andrea / Perigeo
- Herbie Hancock 
- Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew)
- Eumir Deodato
- Mike Mandel / Larry Coryell, The Eleventh House
- Janusz Grzywacz / Laboratorium, Zbigniew Seifert
- Steve Barber / Electromagnets
- Ralph Towner
- Jerry Peters
- Hermann Szobel
- Gregg Rolie / Santana
- Georg Eckl / Exil
- Patrizio Fariselli / Area
- Demetrio Stratos / voice & keyboards for AREA
- Nikola Dimusevski / Leb I Sol
- Bob James
- Tom Coster / Santana
- Richard Kermode / Malo, Betty Davis, Santana
- Hennes Hering / Out Of Focus, Sahara
- Brynjulf Blix / Moose Loose
- Burkard Schmidl / Missus Beastly
- Adam Makowicz / Michael Urbaniak, Urszula Dudziak, self
- Robin Lumley / Isotope, Eddie Howell, Brand X, Gary Boyle

Also considered:
- 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
- George Duke
- Dave Gruisin
- Ramsey Lewis

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