Jimi Hendrix Meets Miles Davis
Played by the Linley Hamilton Quintet
Last Show: Tuesday 18 th February 2020
PizzaExpress Live (Holborn)
Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix were two of the most ground breaking and influential musicians of the 20th century. Linley Hamilton host a night in celebration of the most iconic songs from Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis repertoire, in a colossal collision of both musicians' musical individuality. Jimi's virtuosity and innovative use of heavy distortion in Rock and Blues had taken the whole music world by storm, even influencing jazz musicians like Miles Davis, who had himself begun experimenting with his own form of jazz rock later to be known as fusion.
Jimi and Miles were both admirers of each other’s music, and in Miles' biography he mentions jam sessions together in his NY apartment in 1970. They planned later that year to record an album together, but unfortunately this was not to happen due to Jimi's untimely death. One can only imagine what musical mastery these two giants would have created if one of the greatest musical collaborations in music history had taken place. This concert is Linley Hamilton’s Quintets interpretation of two of the most iconic musicians of the 20th Century and what their collaborations might have sounded like.