Jazz Articles about Jimi Hendrix

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys: Hendrix Live at the Fillmore East

by C. Michael Bailey
April 1, 1999

If A Equals B and B Equals C... No, the music of Jimi Hendrix can not be strictly called jazz. Since the guitarist's death in 1970, many music pundits have opined that had Hendrix lived he would have ventured into the realm of fusion. Rhetorically, how far from fusion could he have been at the end of his life when compared to the electric guitar fireworks on Bitches Brew ? Like jazz, Hendrix's music was blues based and highly improvisatory. ...