Person · Male
Eddie Hazel
- From
- Brooklyn, United States
- Active
- 1950–1992
- Rating
- ★ 5
- Releases
- 5
- funk
- p-funk
About
Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is regarded as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time.
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Also known as
Edward Earl Haxel · Edward Earl Hazel · Hazel
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 98f3e150-95c3-4fa3-8f76-0f6cba4431aa
- ISNI
- 0000000073758390
- IPI
- 00030295411
- IPI
- 00030295901
- IPI
- 00129339170
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 11 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.