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07/18/11 They may not be as famous as Jimi Hendrix or Mick Jagger, but for the next week five local teenagers will tour like them.
07/12/11 NEW YORK - A STRAP from the guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival is being offered by a New York City auctioneer alongside memorabilia from Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain. The online Gotta Have It! Rock & Roll Auction runs from Wednesday through July 22.
07/11/11 For a guitar enthusiast, it would be like fixing up one of Jimi Hendrix's guitars. For a tennis fan, it would be like restringing one of the Williams sisters' racquets. For an avid chef, it would be like installing Julia Child's first stove into your kitchen.[...]
07/04/11 Nils Lofgren's career has ranged from opening for Jimi Hendrix through playing piano for Neil Young, but he mourns fellow E Street member Clarence Clemons.
06/16/11 Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings proudly announce four new titles representing the fourth wave of releases in the monumental Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, available everywhere Tuesday, September 13.
05/31/11 Plus, Capitol Hill buzzes with bills, while Arizona foes dig in their heels. by David Downs The Bay Area's cannabis culturati is celebrating a new high Friday, June 3 in San Francisco when DJ Qbert and D-Styles, turntablists from the legendary Invisibl Skratch Piklz, perform together for the first time in ten years. Sometimes compared to Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane, turntable master D-Styles ...
05/26/11 BILLY COX has been playing Jimi Hendrix's music on and off for five decades, since the two of them served in the army together as teenagers and formed their first band.
04/12/11 Tulsa Mayfest today announced its headliner music act, Phil Brown and his Guitar Army. He brings his 'Jimi Project' tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
04/12/11 Today from the seattlepi.com archive, we share notes about legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix grew up in the Central District and for a time attended Garfield High School. But P-I reporters wrote much more about the guitarist after his Sept. 1970 death than they did in the 27 years he was alive. P-I librarians kept [...]
04/12/11 Meet Mike Rood: Born into a musical family, Mike has always been immersed in music. He has been playing guitar since he was seven, and his early influences include m: Stevie Ray Vaughan and m: Jimi Hendrix . Mike also studied classical piano for 13 years, performing in dozens of recitals and competitions. He won the Nicolas Flagello Piano Competition in 2000 and 2001. Drawn to improvised music ...
03/07/11 Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings proudly announce the third wave of releases in the monumental Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, available everywhere Tuesday, April 12.
02/04/11 A view of a corridor at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, January 10, 2011. The Chelsea Hotel, a haven for struggling artists for over 50 years, is for sale since October 2010. The 12-floor, 250-room landmark hotel, was built in 1883 and hosted celebrities such as Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller and his wife Marylin Monroe, musicians Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and punk rocker Sid Vicious ...
01/21/11 Kids' books: A roundup of award-winning books beyond the well-known Caldecott and Newbery medals. The list includes "Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix," which was recognized with the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor .
12/28/10 HENDERSON, NV--(Marketwire - 12/28/10) - Z3 Enterprises, Inc. (OTC.BB: BIBB - News ) (Pinksheets: BIBB - News ) signed a memorandum of agreement to distribute unreleased Ghettofighters music featuring legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Brothers TaharQa and Tunde Ra Aleem (formerly Albert and Arthur Allen) and Z3 Enterprises will release the music in conjunction with the release of the Aleem ...
12/06/10 Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford will perform Jimi Hendrix's classic 1967 song "Fire" along with fellow Experience Hendrix tour mates
11/27/10 Jimi Hendrix West Coast Seattle Boy Psychedelic Rock * * * * DISCS: Four CDs, one DVD DATES: 1964-1970 DETAILS: Everyone wonders what Jimi would be doing if he were alive.[...]
11/20/10 When new box sets from Bruce Springsteen and Jimi Hendrix arrive on the same day, there's only one thing to do: Flip a coin.
11/18/10 Billy Cox heard Jimi Hendrix before he saw or met him. It was a rainy evening in 1961 at Ft. Campbell in Kentucky, and Cox and a fellow soldier were walking by a service club where "the window was up maybe a couple of inches." From that small opening came a sound both men had never heard before.
11/09/10 Mark Dresser Quintet Dizzy's San Diego, CA October 10, 2010 Double bass virtuoso Mark Dresser is a player whose expertise in multiple genres defies categorization. His is the story of the student becoming the maestro. Growing up, he was inspired by rock guitarist m: Jimi Hendrix , and bassist/composer m: Charles Mingus , and he began his formal studies with a classical music education--soon with ...
10/29/10 TORONTO - One by one some of rock's best known guitarists dazzled Thursday evening at Toronto's Sony Centre for the Performing Arts as part of a tribute concert to the iconic Jimi Hendrix.
10/25/10 New in local books: a book reprising a Seattle lawyer's role in Al Franken's Minnesota recount; Pete Dexter's novel "Spooner" in paperback; a children's book based on Jimi Hendrix's boyhood in Seattle; and a new guide for Seattle Seahawk fans. |