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:::::::::::::Yes, I fully agree with that labelling. I would, however, recommend dropping "jazz" by itself because it looks a bit excessive to have both jazz fusion (a subgenre of jazz) and jazz next to each other. This is the reason as to why I didn't put rock as well as instrumental rock, because the subgenre should be the only one listed—i.e. jazz fusion comes from jazz, so no need to have jazz on its own; and instrumental rock comes from rock, so no need to have rock on its own.
So what I'm saying is that for all the albums, jazz fusion (and smooth jazz, in the case of ''Thinking Out Loud'' and ''Note Worker'') basically renders the inclusion of jazz unnecessary. Hence, for all albums except the aforementioned two, it should just be "'''jazz fusion''', '''instrumental rock'''"; and for those two specifically, it should be "'''jazz fusion''', '''smooth jazz''', '''instrumental rock'''" (albeit no instrumental rock for ''Thinking Out Loud''). Do you agree with this? I think it's the most logical solution. As for labelling categories for all those other artists you've listed, I would only do so if I was really into their music. Since I'm not, I'm sure somebody else could undertake that task. I'm just going with guys that I know and whose music I've listened to extensively (Holdsworth and Gambale being the two main ones).
Finally, as per your question, for instrumental rock guitarists who have played fusion at some point or don't employ lots of shred techniques, I would recommend [[Chris Poland]] (currently plays jazz fusion with his band OHM and OHMphrey, but in the past has played instrumental rock and thrash metal with [[Megadeth]]); [[Michael Lee Firkins]] (has a sort of blues/country thing going on, but his first album was instrumental rock); [[Shawn Lane]] (known primarily for his fast shredding, but actually played a lot fusion stuff with bassist [[Jonas Hellborg]], without heaps of distortion); [[Greg Howe]] (again, plays fast sometimes but usually does a lot of fusion with a 'softly' overdriven tone); and [[Marty Friedman]] (another Megadeth metal guitarist who, for his second and third albums, used a clean tone and went with some fusion/atmospheric type stuff).
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