The elaborate production was almost in vain, after Hendrix left the Axis: Bold As Love master tape in a taxi. Redding saved the day by supplying an early mix on an arse-rough open-reel tape, and the ...

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 died in ...

Luck, chance, and the comfy feel of the instrument's neck guided a young J Mascis to his first Fender Jazzmaster — and the rest is Dinosaur Jr. history. The band, which marks its 35th anniversary in ...

You didn’t question who ran the show in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and the same principle applied to the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Though Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding brought a great deal to ...

The legendary guitarist is being memorialized on Both Sides of the Sky (out March 9), which features 13 studio recordings he made between 1968 and 1970 — 10 of which have never before released. A ...

Seattle-born songwriter and performer Jimi Hendrix is known as the greatest guitar player ever, especially when it comes to rock and roll music. But Hendrix was more than nimble fingers and screeching ...

It’s easy to forget about Jimi Hendrix the songwriter. Since most people rate him as the world’s greatest guitar player, the focus tends to stay on the riffs, that technique, and (heaven help us) ...

Jimi Hendrix is one of the most influential guitarists of all time, and this was the song that Joe Perry believes defined him ...

The Beatles finished recording their self-titled double album — "The White Album" — on October 17, 1968, the same week that The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their own two-record set, Electric ...