Jazz Articles about Jimi Hendrix

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune

by Doug Collette
March 26, 2010

When the tracks that comprise Jimi Hendrix's Valleys of Neptune were recorded during 1968 and 1969, the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter was moving inexorably, albeit somewhat fitfully, into an earthier realm of music than his Experience image would allow. The gorgeous cover graphics of this archive title match the evocative music, as does the density of detail in the recording info (not to mention the accurate perspective Hendrix biographer John McDermott offers in his essay within the enclosed booklet).

The title song, appropriately ...

Hendrix: Live at Woodstock Redefined

by Doug Collette
December 10, 2005

Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock Experience Hendrix/Universal Music Group 2005

One of the greatest ironies of Jimi Hendrix's career is that his set at the Woodstock Festival--one of, if not the most, notable live appearances in his brief history--was performed before a fraction of the total audience in attendance at the fabled event. The newly-released two-DVD edition of this Hendrix show puts this defining moment in an even more favorable light and ...