Not only that, but near-constant touring and the shortlived fireworks display that was the Band Of Gypsys project had amassed a catalogue of often mesmerising performances – an estimated 1,500 hours’ worth of recordings. Hours, days, weeks and months of tape had rolled on by as Jimi – by turns seemingly inspired and indecisive – explored new sonic territory in his purpose-built studio and elsewhere, jamming with a revolving-door entourage of cohorts. Yet work was well underway on the fourth a planned double or even triple LP. Jimi Hendrix’s untimely death in September 1970, aged 27, left the world of music with just three official studio albums. Owen Bailey says: ’Scuse me while I list this guy… Perhaps the most irresistibly magnetic and natural performer in musical history, Jimi Hendrix was also a studio visionary who expanded rock’s horizons, then departed – leaving a tangled posthumous legacy in his wake.
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