Best jazz fusion artist

adace1 wrote: darkshade wrote: adace1 wrote: Sorry again to those who are unhappy with the limited range of options. I planned on including more artists such as Ponty and Corea but I accidentally pressed the enter button too soon when I was making the poll. If someone wants to make a better version of this poll, please do so. Sorry, maybe I came off rude. I don't think there's anything wrong with limiting the options to these, as these are the most progressive and most critically acclaimed of the jazz-fusion bands, at least from the 70s. I was only bugging about ADM, because he is not a jazz guitarist. This poll is fine otherwise. No, that was fine. I appreciate the feedback. About your concern, I don't really have the musical background to distinguish who is or who isn't a jazz guitarist so I'll take it from you that ADM isn't. But the thing is that he is listed on the site as a "Jazz Rock/Fusion/Progressive Rock artist." If he's categorized as such by the site, then I'll include him. I always go by the site and don't really argue with their categorizations. That's just how I do it. Moreover, it would be unfair to the one person that voted for him if I deleted him from the list now. But I understand where you're coming from.

Al Di Meola made about 3-4 real jazz-fusion albums, most of them from the late 70s, early 80s. He was also part of RTF which was a jazz-fusion band as well. Al also guests on some other albums. Yes, it's true that he worked with many jazz musicians, and definitely has his place when talking about jazz-fusion.

I was specifically talking about his actual playing style, which is not rooted in jazz, but more like flamenco or some other type of Spanish guitar style; and rock/shred style. So what I meant was, if you're going to include Al DiMeola, (and I saw you had Holdsworth in there), at least include another artist like Chick Corea or someone who plays fusion, but also is a jazz player.
Jeff Beck isn't a jazz musician either, but he made 2 of the best 70s jazz-rock albums IMO.


Edited by darkshade - October 15 2011 at 14:46

adace1 wrote: Sorry again to those who are unhappy with the limited range of options. I planned on including more artists such as Ponty and Corea but I accidentally pressed the enter button too soon when I was making the poll. If someone wants to make a better version of this poll, please do so.

Sorry, maybe I came off rude. I don't think there's anything wrong with limiting the options to these, as these are the most progressive and most critically acclaimed of the jazz-fusion bands, at least from the 70s. I was only bugging about ADM, because he is not a jazz guitarist. This poll is fine otherwise.

Never really warmed up to MO. I may be getting old, because I only like their "ballads".

These are all big favorites though:

Miles
Herbie
WR
RTF

Same as Logan in preferances and reasons, I guess. Lots of great bands and artists I'd like to see in a fusion poll not included here.

Very hard choice, since they all wrote great music and all have great albums of the genre. I will go for Miles Davis though, since I consider him the master of all these great musicians.

Miles Davis. 

Mahavishnu. Also love Bruford, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke ...

Mahavishnu for me.

Bruford---but since he's not there--Return to Forever

Miles or Herbie Hancock.  The latter had no votes so that's what I went with.

Miles Davis!