Jimi Hendrix: Musician

By Keith Shadwick

Book Overview

Many books about Hendrix concentrate on showmanship and rock-and-roll excess, but Keith Shadwick's Jimi Hendrix: Musician brings to Hendrix's musical legacy as a guitarist, singer, and composer a depth of analysis missing from other accounts of his career, placing Hendrix's work in the broadest possible musical context, encompassing rock, pop, soul, funk, jazz, blues, fusion, and a range of classical disciplines. The book was first published in 2003; sadly, Shadwick died from cancer in 2008 at the age of 57. This new edition in a compact format is published as a tribute to Shadwick, who was described in his obituary in the UK newspaper The Independent as "an authority on classical music who also wrote in-depth biographies of Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. He was a jazzer who rocked and championed G recki."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879309601
• ISBN13: 9780879309602
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.4"