All niceties aside, and with all due respect, Rok, when it comes to the "guys" that you refer to, you don't know what you are talking about. Those guys did not start off in jazz-rock. They started off as obsessive students of Coltrane and built on that legacy. They are serious jazz players, NYC legends and heros of the tenor saxophone world. Nobody said anything about being a seminal figure. And, please, don't be so darn predictable. I challenge one of your premises (the "popular" thingy) and you lash out with irrationality. If you would just chill for a moment you might learn something about the lineage of an instrument that can fairly be said is the only wind just instrument in "fusion" and practically defined the sound of an entire genre. We are supposed to be lookjng at the decade "in detail"; remember? Wiki? Are you f¿£®¢g kidding me? How about letting your ears tell you what a player is about. If you can't hear that Liebman is the direct descendant of Trane, or if you can't hear the brilliance of his solo with Elvin, what can I say. Re attire: c'mon man, of course it matters. But, again, if you have to resort to cheap shots like that and miss the forest for the trees, not to mention the substance of my comments, then these discussions really are pointless. I am willing to try and perhaps even "lead", but as I said previously, I think we need to dig little deeper; or endure yet more clips of Wynton and Clapton.
Cheers.