Jazz Articles about Jimi Hendrix

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. ...