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Im gonna get skewered here... Jimi was a sonic genius, I absolutely love a lot of his music and what he did....the guy could play rock and blues like a m'fer and had no peer at his peak, even Clapton couldnt touch Jimi...but I can not put him in the same class as a top notch jazzer such as my affore mentioned Lenny Breau, simply because Jimi could not handle the sophisticated chord changes of modern jazz, could not improvise over those changes or come up with complex chord substitutions on the spot during improvisation let alone use his right hand fingers fingerstyle picking that could basically accomplish anything he wanted... no Jimi had his limits but ONLY because he chose to focus on the blues/rock genre... had Jimi had the education and discipline to learn the styles of classical and jazz and flamenco, I certainly believe he had the mental capacity to master them...however he did not do so and in fact barely even touched other genres in any of his playing...., therefore I can not consider him to be the greatest single guitarist of all time.
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