Top 5 musicians for each instrument

Ok then. I'm too lazy to name five, I'll give you one of each instead.

Though sometime's Jansch's work is subtle, his innovative and influential style of fusing baroque music with folk music is extremely unique and very hard to replicate. Though the concept of fusing baroque folk has become a bit more common now he was one of the first to do it. When it comes to other guitar players (especially acoustic) you can here people on youtube doing great renditions of their songs but no one can seem to be able to replicate all of the little things Bert could do that nobody else could. You can here people on their own records that sound a lot like Steve Hackett and even McLaughlin at times but no one in my opinion can quite get Bert. 

Renbourn's middle eastern influencs and occasional use of the sitar really appeal to me personally. You can here some of his sitar work on the Pentangle song "House Carpenter" along with some of Bert's banjo. John Renbourn I think did some of his best work in the Pentangle and with Bert but with his also great solo material I suggest trying his most influential "Sir John Alot", which is his interpretations on medieval songs. Also try "The Hermit", "Ship of Fools", and his stuff with The John Renbourn Group , "The Enchanted Garden" and "A Maid in Bedlam" which more clearly show his middle eastern influences.

^ Wow. Awesome. Thanks. Will check those works out.

 

a common thing I notice is that Keith Emerson and Tony Banks are often put this way round when looking at technicality and musicality

I believe it should be the other way round. Emerson is a far more interesting composer than Banks while even Emerson admitted that Banks was the best he ever saw.

Moraz probably beats the lot of them though!

 

Agreed on the first point , although I would go further and say Collins drumming got better and Duke is his best.