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Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

by Nenad Georgievski
April 18, 2015

Several decades after his tragic and premature death, Jimi Hendrix looms even more larger and deeper than ever. An intrepid risk taker and untamed musical force that he was, this pre-eminent guitarist of the 20th century achieved his position by treating his guitar rather differently than the others. Fueled by a boundless musical imagination, Hendrix used device he could find in order to amplify the multicolored sounds he heard in his imagination. His premature death at the age of 27, ...

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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’

by Doug Collette
July 5, 2014

Jimi Hendrix Hear My Train A Comin' Sony-Legacy 2013 As an entry into the PBS American Masters series, it's little surprise Hear My Train A Comin' doesn't take a particularly novel approach to its subject. Still, the film progresses assuredly and vividly from one significant point to another as it covers the life and career of the one of the epochal figures of Sixties rock, Jimi Hendrix. Interviews with those who knew ...

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Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight

by Maurizio Comandini
June 18, 2014

Jimi Hendrix Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Sony Legacy Music 2014 Due di notte all'isola di Wight. La terza edizione del festival, quella più famosa, sta per terminare con l'esibizione del chitarrista mancino che ha cambiato la storia della musica. Era il 31 di agosto del 1970, un lunedì. Nessuno poteva saperlo all'epoca, ma Jimi Hendrix era appena entrato nella sua terz'ultima settimana da cittadino del pianeta Terra. Sarebbe partito, ...

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Jimi Hendrix: People, Hell and Angels

by Doug Collette
March 16, 2013

The eye-catching metallic tone of the packaging, not to mention the scrupulous annotation in the accompanying booklet, belie the seemingly motley collection of twelve tracks comprising Jim Hendrix's cryptically-titled People Hell and Angels.Nevertheless, this slightly less-than hour of music documents the period in which the iconic musician, in an earnest attempt to progress beyond The Jimi Hendrix Experience, proceeded from the adventurous Electric Ladyland (Reprise, 1968) into more stylistically diverse territory during 1969 and the early part of ...

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Jimi Hendrix: More to Experience

by Doug Collette
September 17, 2011

In the near half-century since Jimi Hendrix's death, the passion the late guitarist's music elicits includes deep feelings about how his art has been presented posthumously. Accordingly, the reaction to the release of the four-CD Winterland box set, in combination with an expanded edition of one the earliest (and most sought after out-of-circulation) posthumous titles, In The West, threatens to dampen what otherwise might be unbridled enthusiasm. Those familiar with the history of titles following Hendrix's ...

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Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore East

by Doug Collette
July 3, 2011

Jimi HendrixBand of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore EastExperience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings2011 Given the latter years of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's life were fouled by business disputes, it comes as no surprise that the Band of Gypsys, perhaps the foulest such entanglement of them all, was not comprehensively recorded in video or audio. While we're fortunate to have the black & white footage contained on this DVD-- paired with a feature ...

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Jimi Hendrix: West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology

by Doug Collette
December 4, 2010

Jimi HendrixWest Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix AnthologyLegacy2010 Since assuming ownership of Jimi Hendrix' archive in 1995, the late guitarist's estate has done yeoman work to dispel the shadow cast over the rock icon's legacy by the spate of posthumous releases that began flooding the marketplace almost immediately upon his untimely death in 1970. West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology maintains a delicate balance of attractions for the ...