JIMI HENDRIX, MILES DAVIS Project Intended To Include PAUL MCCARTNEY Unearthed Telegram Reveals
May 10, 2013, 11 years ago
The Associated Press is reporting:
Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that MILES DAVIS and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in 1970.
But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another band at the time.
This tantalizing detail about the super group that never was — jazz standout Tony Williams would have been on drums — is contained in an oft-overlooked telegram that Hendrix sent to McCartney at The Beatles’ Apple Records in London on Oct. 21, 1969.
The telegram has been part of the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia collection since it was purchased at auction in 1995.
“It’s not something you hear about a lot,” Hard Rock historian Jeff Nolan said of the telegram, now displayed at the restaurant in Prague. “Major Hendrix connoisseurs are aware of it. It would have been one of the most insane supergroups. These four cats certainly reinvented their instruments and the way they’re perceived.”Read more at The Associated Press.
