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This type of thing is incredibly subjective.
However, who pops into my mind is Rick Wakeman. I've always found the stuff he did on Hunky Dory and Space Oddity for Bowie to be amazingly good, as well as his playing on Lou Reed's first solo album too, while the stuff he's famous for in Yes is usually painful to listen to.
But then the more complicated playing is on the Yes records (particularly the worst ones like Topographic Oceans) and is most bombastic solo albums, while the session stuff he did for Reed, Bowie, et al. is often much more simplistic. So I like less is more, but I don't know that it's any kind of measure of "talent".
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