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Tupac. He was prolific. Who knows what he could have gone on to.

Grateful Dead

Aerosmith

Guns N' Roses
 
Hekate said:
I would add Charles Mingus to Coltrane and Miles Davis.

Have to add Robert Johnson. Armstrong as well.

Then goes with

Jimi Hendrix
Thelonius Monk
Muddy Waters
Ella Fitzgerald
Chet Baker
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No love for Sonny Rollins? Simply one of the greatest instrumentalists in history, constantly pushing boundaries with his sax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DTR0I7xhA
 
How you could possibly go 4 pages into this discussion without mentioning Prince amazes me. Here, just check out this guitar solo (starting around 3:20 in the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
 
Not to everyone's taste, but people who really love music, mostly love Lou Reed. Not a great guitarist, and certainly not a good singer (altho better than he usually showed) but he cut right to the essence of music and the human condition with his writing.
 
gandalfe said:
How you could possibly go 4 pages into this discussion without mentioning Prince amazes me. Here, just check out this guitar solo (starting around 3:20 in the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
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Ya we ****ed that one up. 100% Prince.
 
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