Jimi Hendrix

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Please note: The American/Canadian releases of "Are You Experienced?" had a spelling mistake on the song "Foxy Lady" (it is spelled "Foxey Lady" on the albums). These copies were released months after the original UK version which had the correct spelling ("Foxy Lady").

The discography of Jimi Hendrix is a complex matter. Strictly speaking, only the four albums "Are You Experienced?", "Axis: Bold as Love", "Electric Ladyland", and "Band of Gypsys" are officially sanctioned by Hendrix. First three of those albums were released by his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. You will find those albums at that artist page.

Posthumous Releases

There are so many posthumous releases of Jimi Hendrix material that this album listing is necessarily a mess. If someone wants to start cleaning it up, or you want more precise information, this is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix

Another useful link: http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/jimihendrix.htm

Information about the early Hendrix work is collected at http://www.earlyhendrix.com/

...and maybe Tomacho's Jimi Hendrix Collection & http://www.infromthestorm.net will be of use.

Before Fame

There have been many (and that's an understatement) attempts at cashing in on Hendrix's popularity over the years by re-releasing his session work as long-lost J. Hendrix releases.

As a session player Hendrix played with

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Legal name: James Marshall Hendrix

Also performs as: Heaven Research

Wikipedia

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as the greatest and one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with his band the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid rock musician, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970.

Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968), among the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth-greatest artist of all time. Hendrix was named the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023.

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Discography

Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2007Live and UnleashedJimi Hendrix2

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1968FlashingJimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight1
1968Strange ThingsJimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight1
1969Record Plant SessionsJimi Hendrix & Larry Young2
1971The Cry of LoveJimi Hendrix413
1971Rainbow BridgeJimi Hendrix3.58
1972Rare HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1972War HeroesJimi Hendrix4.511
1974Strange ThingsJimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight1
1975Crash LandingJimi Hendrix48
1975Midnight LightningJimi Hendrix3.54
1979"Experience"Jimi Hendrix1
1979My Best FriendJimi Hendrix1
1980Nine to the UniverseJimi Hendrix4.51
1981Welcome HomeJimi Hendrix2
1985Strange ThingsJimi Hendrix2
1991Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1991Purple HazeJimi Hendrix1
1995Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
2000Morning Symphony IdeasJimi Hendrix33
2001Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself DeadJimi Hendrix1
2002The Baggy’s Rehearsal SessionsJimi Hendrix2
2004Hear My MusicJimi Hendrix3
2006Burning DesireJimi Hendrix1
2018Both Sides of the SkyJimi Hendrix4.355

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1969Shokan: Jammin' Back at the HouseJimi Hendrix1
1970Battle of Deep Purple & Jimi HendrixDeep Purple / Jimi Hendrix1
1971In the Beginning...The Isley Brothers & Jimi Hendrix2
1972Friends From the BeginningLittle Richard & Jimi Hendrix8
1972In the BeginningJimi Hendrix1
1973Loose EndsJimi Hendrix44
1976Attention! Jimi Hendrix!Jimi Hendrix1
1978In GoldJimi Hendrix1
1978The Essential Jimi Hendrix, Volumes One and TwoJimi Hendrix7
1978The Story of Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1980Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1981Cosmic TurnaroundJimi Hendrix1
1981Get That Feeling / FlashingJimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight1
1981Historia de la musica rockJimi Hendrix1
1981Jimi Hendrix / Bob Marley / Percy Sledge (La grande storia del rock)Jimi Hendrix / Bob Marley / Percy Sledge1
1981Jimi Hendrix (La grande storia del rock)Jimi Hendrix1
1982Jimi Hendrix (La grande storia del rock)Jimi Hendrix1
1982Jimi Hendrix (La grande storia del rock)Jimi Hendrix1
1982Jimi Hendrix (La grande storia del rock)Jimi Hendrix1
1983Jimi Hendrix / Jerry Wallace / Gladys Knight & The Pips / Bobby Womack (La grande storia del rock)Jimi Hendrix / Jerry Wallace / Gladys Knight & The Pips / Bobby Womack1
1983The Singles AlbumJimi Hendrix5
1983The History of Rock, Volume 16Jimi Hendrix / Cream1
1984Gangster of LoveJimi Hendrix3
1984Kiss the SkyJimi Hendrix35
1986Historic HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1986Voodoo ChileJimi Hendrix1
1987Free SpiritJimi Hendrix2
198816 Greatest ClassicsJimi Hendrix1
1988Early ClassicsJimi Hendrix1
1988Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1989All The HitsJimi Hendrix6
1989Purple HazeJimi Hendrix3
1989The Best of & the Rest ofJimi Hendrix1
1990Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix StoryJimi Hendrix3
1990Cornerstones 1967-1970Jimi Hendrix2
1990Greatest HitsJimi Hendrix1
1990Hendrix Inédit- Collector Guitar WorldJimi Hendrix1
1990Night LifeJimi Hendrix1
1990Octavia and UnivibeJimi Hendrix1
1990Variations On A Theme - Red HouseJimi Hendrix1
1991The Jimi Hendrix StoryJimi Hendrix1
1991Tomorrow Never KnowsJimi Hendrix1
1992Calling Long DistanceJimi Hendrix1
1992Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix2
1992The Ultimate ExperienceJimi Hendrix411
1992The Jimi Hendrix Gold CollectionJimi Hendrix1
1993AnthologyJimi Hendrix1
1993CollectionJimi Hendrix1
1993CherokeeJimi Hendrix1
1993Good TimesJimi Hendrix1
1993GoldJimi Hendrix2
1993The Experience CollectionJimi Hendrix1
1993VoicesJimi Hendrix1
1994BluesJimi Hendrix3.515
1994Before the ExperienceJimi Hendrix1
1994The Early YearsJimi Hendrix4
1994Unsurpassed Studio Takes 1966-1970Jimi Hendrix1
1995Voodoo SoupJimi Hendrix53
1995Night LifeJimi Hendrix1
1995Gold CollectionJimi Hendrix1
1995Jimi by Himself: The Home RecordingsJimi Hendrix1
1995Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1995Sunshine of Your LoveJimi Hendrix3
1995The Very BestJimi Hendrix1
1995The Legend LiveJimi Hendrix1
1996The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings, Volume 1: Get That FeelingJimi Hendrix1
1996The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings, Volume 2: FlashingJimi Hendrix1
1996The Early YearsJimi Hendrix1
1996The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings, Volume 3: Ballad of JimiJimi Hendrix1
1996Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix1
1996PsychoJimi Hendrix1
1996White Boy Black Boy BluesJimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton1
1997First Rays of the New Rising SunJimi Hendrix49
1997Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix513
1997South Saturn DeltaJimi Hendrix3.656

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