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Juxtapoz Magazine - Getting Experienced: The John Fluevog x Jimi Hendrix Collection

On the eve of a very special collaboration between Fluevog shoes and Jimi Hendrix, we sat down with John Fluevog and Janie Hendrix, Jimi's s

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Yoko Ono & Janie Hendrix To Present New Music Channel

Yoko Ono and Janie Hendrix will help launch a new music channel called the Coda Collection. Sony Music Entertainment is behind the service that will host new music films, rare concert footage and premiere new documentaries. The channel will launch on February 21st 2021 with over 100 titles including Money, Madness...Jimi Hendrix In Maui and Johnny Cash At San Quentin. Janie Hendrix, described one part of the channel's mission in statement about her late brother Jimi Hendrix.

“There will always be the desire to know more about Jimi, and what drove his creativity. So much went into his concerts and performances. There was background, a backstory, and depth to it all. Coda reveals all the various dimensions, and I’m proud to be a part of making it happen.”

Coda Collection will stream via Amazon Prime.

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Half a century after his big brother arrived in London to begin his short career, Leon Hendrix reflects on Jimi’s life and music

Leon is slender, intense, and enjoys the inevitable conversation about his brother rather than himself, in the room which Jimi called “the first real home of my own”.

Everyone knows the Hendrix childhood was hardly that of a model family – a mother who left, and a father who drank more than he cared. “But Jimi looked after me,” recalls Leon. “For some reason, I never missed a meal. He looked out for me like an elder-brother-father; he made me what you English call ‘tea’ and made sure I was OK. And sometimes, we used to sneak off to Mom’s for dinner.”

But where did the music come from? “It’s called inspiration,” says Leon, almost scolding. “As in ‘spirit’, as in ‘in-spirit-ation’. It’s in the wind. I was there when Jimi was a boy, and he’d play with a broom, his first guitar. And Pa would come home and see the straw and shit from the broom on the floor, because Jimi’d been doing acrobatics with his his broom-guitar, and Jimi’d get a whuppin’.”

According to Leon’s book, Jimi Hendrix: A Brother’s Story, Jimi’s first real instrument was a ukulele the boys found while cleaning out a neighbour’s garage. When he finally got a guitar, Jimi, says Leon, “used to take gold tassels from his Pa’s empty Seagrams 7 bottles and tie them to it.

“But the music came from nowhere,” he says. “Music has no body, and I remember when Jimi was playing, he’d try to conjure up the sound with his fingers – where is it?” Once, “when we were little, Jimi took a radio apart, trying to find the music inside it. We lost the screwdriver behind the sofa and couldn’t put it back together, and that was another whuppin’.”

Leon says, poignantly, of Hendrix’s soft vocal timbre: “It came from always being told to shut up as a kid. Jimi went inside with his music, and when he got on stage, that was his time”.

There is genetic lineage, it turns out, as Leon imparts some new information “My mother’s grandfather was a musician. He was black, but looked so white he was allowed to play, down in Louisiana. He played orchestral music in the 1800s.” However, “my own children want nothing to do with music, they’ve seen what it did to us. My daughter’s in Mexico and my son wants to be a scientist, or a doctor. But I’ve got these grandchildren – and they’re mighty interested. ‘Hey, grandpa, play us that music by uncle Jimi!’ [Read More]

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Janie Hendrix: Keeping The Legend Alive

Janie Hendrix: Keeping The Legend Alive

  Who was Jimmy Hendrix? To thousands, if not millions of fans in the Hippie Era he was a legendary talented guitar revolutionary. A man who played with his soul, spreading a message of peace, love and liberty, for all of those who encountered the struggle of being accepted by society; is who he was to all his followers. Now lets not get carried away with civil rights, freedom, and racial slurs…

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VIDEO: Jimi Hendrix Sister Discusses Upcoming Authorized Hendrix Movie

Jimi Hendrix’s sister, Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the company that manages the business of Jimi Hendrix, talks to Wall Street Journal celebrity reporter Lee Hawkins about a deal the company signed with ICM recently to do an official Jimi Hendrix film and the fact that her company did not license music to or have any involvement in a new film about Hendrix featuring Andre 3000.

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Lee Hawkins of The Wall Street Journal interviews Janie Hendrix about maintaining the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. They also talk about her upcoming official movie about Hendrix, her non-interest in John Ridley’s film starring Andre 3000 and her feelings about the Jimi Hendrix murder conspiracy rumors.

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U.S. Postal Service Honors Legendary Guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, w/Limited-Edition Forever Stamp on the SXSW Outdoor Stage at Butler Park

@USPS Honors Legendary Guitarist @JimiHendrix with Limited-Edition #ForeverStamp on @SXSW Outdoor Stage at Butler Park

Rocking the Music Icons Stamp Series With a Tribute Concert

AUSTIN, Texas, March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire – The U.S. Postal Service will take center stage on the SXSW Outdoor Stage at Butler Park with the dedication of the Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp.

Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, Hendrix displayed an innovative style that embraced the…

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