Photo Jam with Jimi Hendrix

Kept the View
Denmark, 1967

Forty years after his death on Sept. 18, 1970, the music and spirit of Jimi Hendrix are still thriving. Electric Ladyland, the studio he devoted his short-lived fame and fortune to, remains vibrant, while his estate, after many years of turmoil, has just released Valleys of Neptune, the first in a projected multidisc series that will make public for the first time a trove of awesome but unheard recordings.

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