Yes, Jimi Hendrix was a rock guitar god, but he inspired scores of jazz players, and fans. After all, he is the first non-jazz musician to enter the DownBeat Hall of Fame, back in 1970 (the year of ...

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For the first time in five years, The Experience Hendrix Tour, the critically acclaimed multi-artist celebration of Jimi Hendrix's musical genius, returns to the concert trail with a slate of concert ...

Award-winning jazz guitarist Louis Mhlanga has always let music take center stage. For the 67-year-old award-winning Zimbabwean, music has been the sole focus of his life. “I did nothing else except ...

One Scottish holiday was apparently all that was standing in the way of Jimi Hendrix forming what would have become a historic supergroup of epic proportions. The rock ‘n’ roller sent out a telegram ...

The States had Woodstock. The U.K. had the Isle of Wight. And in 1970, Germany threw its hat in the ring with a three-day music festival on the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea. Somewhat fittingly, ...

LAST SUNDAY, the New York Times magazine published a document so amazing, I assumed that it would set off a world-wide sensation, a great cacophony of breast-beating, disillusion, and internal crisis.

Inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s bold use of the dominant 7#9 on “Purple Haze,” this twist on that famous voicing adds raw energy to your jazz and blues playing. Try it and see how it transforms your sound.

It’s pushing nine on Monday morning at the Woodstock Festival, and in a messianic white jacket and a bottle-green bandana that hangs over his eyes like a visor, the guitarist Larry Lee is every inch ...