for me,
jazz electric: jaco - no contest, the greatest
jazz acoustic: not for technical brilliance but for production of great music - charles mingus
rock: i love entwistle for the fact that he is in the who but really he's over-rated - all of his solos are just blues scale solos but he is my favourite. if i had to say the best technically (although in my opinion jaco would beat most rock bass players technically) would be "Erroneous"(real name unkown to me) who plays bass on many of Zappas mid 70's albums and can do some pretty amazing technical bass lines
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"Artists are artists, because they have an extra sensitivity - a skin less perhaps than other people; and the great ones have an uncomfortable habit of being right about many things, long before their time"
- Benjamin Britten, 1951
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