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It's hard to comprehend that Jim Hendrix's career as a legendary musician spanned only four years. He passed in 1970 at age 27 from an accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia.
On Tuesday, beginning at 6:30 p.m., Ras Kente and The Take No Prisoners Posse will perform the psychedelic sounds of Hendrix in tribute to his impressive works at the Charles H. Wright Museum, 315 E. Warren Ave. in Detroit's Cultural Center. Admission is free.
Rolling Stone named him performer of the year in 1969:
Jimi Hendrix, an American boy out of Seattle, went to England and headed a British band in 1966 and 1967. He spent most of 1968 back home in the States. When you went to hear him you heard a lot more guitar – and got a fantastic stage presence to go along with it with a whole lot less bullshit in the bargain. Incredible guitar.
Blues players, jazz players, rock players – all were agreed that Hendrix’ improvisations transcended category and constituted music as imaginative and alive as rock and roll has known. Jimi, more than any other player, has extended the voice of amplified guitar to an incredible new range of emotive sounds. And in Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell he chose the perfect musicians to complement him.
