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Jimi Hendrix

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Born Johnny Allen Hendrix (later changed to James Marshall) on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington. Learning to play guitar as a teenager, Hendrix grew up to become a rock guitar legend. He began his career by playing in a number of bands in his youth. Hendrix later enlisted in the United States Army in 1961 and became as a paratrooper. Even as a soldier, Hendrix found time for music, creating a band named The King Casuals. He served in the army until 1965 when he was discharged because of an injury. After leaving the military, Hendrix pursued his music, working as a session musician and playing backup for such performers as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, and the Isley Brothers

Live In Maui

By JIMI HENDRIX

Label: Legacy Recordings/Experience Hendrix
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: Chuck Wein Introduction; Hey Baby (New Rising Sun); In From The Storm; Foxey Lady; Hear My Train A-Comin'; Voodoo Child (Slight Return); Fire; Purple Haze; Spanish Castle Magic; Lover Man; Message to Love. CD 2: Dolly Dagger; Villanova Junction; Ezy Ryder; Red House; Freedom; Jam Back at the House; Straight Ahead; Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)/Midnight Lightning; Stone Free

Music, Money, Madness . . .Live In Maui

By JIMI HENDRIX

Label: Legacy Recordings/Experience Hendrix
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: Chuck Wein Introduction; Hey Baby (New Rising Sun); In From The Storm; Foxey Lady; Hear My Train A-Comin'; Voodoo Child (Slight Return); Fire; Purple Haze; Spanish Castle Magic; Lover Man; Message to Love. CD 2: Dolly Dagger; Villanova Junction; Ezy Ryder; Red House; Freedom; Jam Back at the House; Straight Ahead; Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)/Midnight Lightning; Stone Free

Hear My Train A Comin': The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix

By IAN PATTERSON

Hear My Train A Comin':The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix Kevin Le Gendre 240 Pages ISBN: 97818000500143 Equinox 2020 Few artists have burned as briefly and brightly as Jimi Hendrix, the Afro-American guitarist and singer who set the late 1960s alight with his virtuosity and showmanship. Fifty years after he ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Maui

By DOUG COLLETTE

It's been quite the circuitous route from the second official posthumous Jimi Hendrix release Rainbow Bridge (Reprise, 1971) to Music, Money, Madness... Live In Maui. And while video component of the 2020 Jimi Hendrix archive release seems like much ado about nothing in its examination of the aforementioned film, the concert content of the Experience reminds ...

Indian Sun: The Life And Music Of Ravi Shankar

By IAN PATTERSON

Indian Sun: The Life And Music Of Ravi Shankar Oliver Craske 658 Pages ISBN: 978-0-571-35085-8 Faber & Faber2020 The title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is something of a misnomer, for ...

Jazzkaar 2020

By MARTIN LONGLEY

Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia October 9-13, 2020 In this year of cancellations and postponements, the Jazzkaar festival opted to jump from April to October, successfully presenting a shorter version that nevertheless managed to include between four and six sets on most of its days. Giant-size American artists were unavoidably absent, but ...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Guaranteed To Bend Your Head

By CHRIS MAY

Jazz musicians are rarely called shamanistic but the description fits Rahsaan Roland Kirk precisely. Clad in black leather trousers and heavy duty shades (he was blind from the age of two), a truckload of strange looking horns strung round his neck—two or three of which he often played simultaneously--twisting, shaking and otherwise contorting his body, stamping ...

Soft Machine: Live At The Baked Potato

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

European progressive jazz-rock ensemble Soft Machine seems to have run through more lives than even the luckiest tomcat. They've been first-rate musicians at every incarnation, and it's heartening to hear John Etheridge (guitar), John Marshall (drums), Roy Babbington (bass) and relative newcomer Theo Travis (piano, flute, saxophone) sound so vibrant as well as accomplished on Live ...

Meet Doug Collette

By AAJ STAFF

Doug Collette's pedigree for crafting honest and carefully-considered music analysis lies in a nearly fifty year devotion to contemporary rock and roll, jazz and the blues. During this time, his zeal for writing has grown to (almost) equal his devotion to the musical experiences he has documented from his astute observations of records, videos, books and ...