Pat Martino ... master jazz guitarist Pat Metheny ... great diverse contemporary guitarist and composer Allan Holdsworth ...innovator of progressive electric jazz fusion Gene Bertoncini ... beautiful nylon string guitarist / arranger Oregon ... pioneering world music band led by guitarist Ralph Towner Martin Taylor ... great Scottish finger style jazz guitarist Pierre Bensusan ... master of the DADGAD tuning ... French / Algerian finger style guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ... wonderful Australian all-around guitarist
Other favorite musicians:
Jaco Pastorius ... innovator on the electric fretless bass N. Scott Robinson ... world music percussionist / composer and musicologist
