Jimi Hendrix' personal record collection

Great blog post (a friend of mine from another board wrote it)

http://jasobrecht.com/jimi-hendrixs-personal-record-collection/

I really liked this section:

Jimi’s taste in jazz leaned toward the progressive: Wes Montgomery’s A Day in the Life, Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery’s The Dynamic Duo, Jaki Byard’s Freedom Together and Sunshine of My Soul, the Free Spirits’ Out of Sight and Sound with Larry Coryell, Acker Bilk’s Lansdowne Folio, the Roland Kirk Quartet’s Rip, Rig and Panic, and the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s Journey Within.

Pretty cool, he had a really eclectic taste.

That he did, DC and it showed especially on tracks like 'Third Stone From The Sun', 'South Saturn Delta' and 'Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)' to name a few.

Once you start digging into the Dagger Records releases (Hear My Music, The Baggy's Rehearsal Tapes, etc), that's where you can really hear Hendrix' influences on full display.

There is literally hours of instrumental cuts strewn throughout those albums and the box sets, alot of improv, which brings some of the jazz stuff more clearly to the front.

(there is actually more jazz influence when Mitchell is behind the kit, he basically sounds like he was doing an Elvin Jones thing, just bringing it to the rock context)

Hendrix was really just starting to get into jazz heavily when he passed away.

Too bad the album with Miles Davis didn't happen...

Man, I've been meaning to get the Dagger Records stuff but with so much stuff coming from the Hendrix vaults I can't keep up! After reading your comments on them I am really jonesing for them now.

Man, a Hendrix/Miles album woulda made Love Devotion Surrender look like a second rate effort! And LDS is great!

Hear My Music and Morning Symphony Ideas are both all-instrumental releases from Dagger Records...and the first two I would get (in that order too).

Very interesting blog...

Thanks for sharing this stuff, excellent article, and I also need to get those Dagger Records releases, I already have 40 Hendrix releases on CD