Question: Who was the more accomplished musician, Albert Ward or Johnny Depp?
Context: John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician.  He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.  He rose to prominence on the 1980s television series "21 Jump Street", becoming a teen idol. Clifford Blandford "Cliff" Townshend (28 January 1916 – 29 June 1986) was an English jazz musician noted for playing the saxophone in The Royal Air Force Dance Orchestra, popularly known as The Squadronaires.  He was described by acquaintances as a quiet man with a wry sense of humor.  He also played clarinet in the band and was respected by his peers as a talented and accomplished musician.  His eldest son, Pete, gained renown as guitarist and principal composer for the seminal rock band The Who. Hossein Hang Afarin (Persian: ‎ ‎ ) (1878 – 1952) was a Persian (Iranian) band conductor of the Cossak Brigade, conductor of Okhovvat society (Persian: ‎ ‎ ) orchestra, and performer of setar.  Studied military music under the French musician Monsieur Lemaire and Persian classical music under Mirza Abdollah.  He is regarded by Ruhollah Khaleqi as an accomplished musician and setar performer of his time.  Aside from leading the Brigade bands he taught setar, violin, and piano privately.  He is credited for creating many famous musicians such as Nasrollah Zarrin Panjeh Peer Åström (born 1972 in Ljusdal, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer and partner with Anders Bagge.  The two songwriters / producers are known as Bagge & Peer.  They have together written and produced songs for Lara Fabian, Celine Dion, Madonna, Ace of Base, Ashley Tisdale, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez and several others.  Åström is an accomplished musician playing bass guitar, keyboards and drums. James Kelly Robinson II (born July 29, 1950, in Washington, D.C.) is an American recording engineer, record producer and musician.  He is best known for his engineering techniques with both analogue and digital audio recordings with prominent popular pop and rock records in American music from the late 1960s to the present.  In addition to his recording expertise, Robinson is also an accomplished musician in his own right and has been awarded gold records as both a saxophonist and bass guitarist. Albert Ward (1870-1956) was a British screenwriter and film director.  He also play the role of William Shakespeare in the 1914 biopic of the playwright's career "The Life of Shakespeare". Paul Kitchen is an American Singer-Songwriter-Musician, who has recorded 22 albums of mostly original songs between 1977 and the present.  An accomplished musician, Paul Kitchen often plays all of the instruments on his albums, and performed with the band Petty Tyrant in the late 1980s.  An interesting fact is he learned to play the guitar upside-down ala Albert King. Dead Man is the soundtrack to the 1995 Jim Jarmusch western-themed film of the same name starring Gary Farmer, and Johnny Depp as William Blake.  Neil Young recorded the soundtrack by improvising (mostly on his electric guitar, with some acoustic guitar, piano and organ) as he watched the newly edited film alone in a recording studio.  The soundtrack album consists of seven instrumental tracks by Young, with dialog excerpts from the film and Johnny Depp reading the poetry of William Blake interspersed between the music.  The version of the main theme used over the film's beginning and end credits is not included, but was released as a promo single.  The soundtrack differs from the film in that it uses background noises of a driving car while the whole plot is set in the 19th century (before automobiles were invented). Esteban "Steve" Jordan (February 23, 1939 – August 13, 2010) was a jazz, rock, blues, conjunto and Tejano musician from the United States.  He was also known as "El Parche", "The Jimi Hendrix of the accordion", and "the accordion wizard".  An accomplished musician, he played 35 different instruments. Gay for Johnny Depp was a hardcore band formed in New York, USA.  Members were: Sid Jagger (Guitar – Real name: Joseph Grillo), Marty Leopard (Vocals – Real name: Arty Shepherd), Chelsea Piers (Bass), JJ Samanen (drums).  They were known for the lyrical content of their songs, which is often concerned with the band's homoerotic obsession over the actor Johnny Depp.
Answer: John Christopher Depp II