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Tribute to Jimi

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You know...when this album came out I noticed no less than half-a-dozen Hendrix "Tribute" albums on the rack. Most released by HUGE artists...really ambitious projects. Being a Jimi freak...I quickly found a home for these projects in my collection. WITHOUT EXCEPTION (except for Jeff Beck doing "Manic Depression") they were all over produced bombs! I then stumbled across JPB's album. I had just been hipped up to "Trippin'" and figured I'd give it a whirl...I've never looked back...this ain't a "tribute" album...it's an extension! Folks who didn't pick up on that simply missed the point. Jimi would have been so proud of this cats interpretations. The pure and complex duality going on here is beyond description. This album is so very Jimi and so VERY JBP! Simple...JPB has been places, and continues to go places, that most guitarists only dream of reaching. He and Jimi share that very special ability to tell wild and wonderful tales with six strings and bring the listener along for the adventure of a lifetime. Long live Jimi and rumble JBP rumble. JPB...you da man!

Doing Hendrix tunes as a guitarist, is probably the most ambitious project you can do. Almost doomed to be judged harshly. I wouldnt suggest it to anybody - but actually Bourelly got away with it in style!
He has got the same sense of the pause and timing as Jimi had, which no other guitarist I can remember has. For instance Stevie Ray Vaughan turns Hendrix into just blazing rock'n roll, but this is the real thing, its got the feel that the music deserves. I dont mind the slight jazz edge at all, on the contrary it suits Jimi's music fine. Listen to how far Gil Evans took Hendrix music with a full bigband, and it still worked out.
Bourelly is a great Hendrix interpreter!

I have to take exception to the reviews of the Captain from North of England, and Willem of Holland. Perhaps their European roots leave them ill equipped to understand the real roots of American music, and especially the blues.

Friends of Jimi Hendrix have said that before his death he had talked about playing with Miles, moving more toward jazz. Jazz appeared early in the Experience recordings, in the Mose Allison influenced "Up From the Stars," and other songs. Jean-Paul Bourelly did play with Miles, and I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that he understood Jimi's vectors exceptionally well.

This is a superb album by a gifted player. It's also an honest tribute, in the artist's own voice, to one of the forces that helped shape it.

I have never heard anyone try to reproduce the music of Jimi Hendrix so authentically. Most people just resign themselves to the fact that he was a one off and it should be left that way. Jean-Paul Bourelly has very ambitiously undertaken to produce a sound so authentically Hendrix that he almost pulls it off. Particularly ambitious in this case is Star Spangled Banner. This is the best reproduction of the now legendary take on the American National Anthem from Woodstock that I have heard yet. All the tracks on this recording have something to offer and it comes highly recommended from me and all my friends who have heard it here in Australia.

Hey, I'm Willem from Holland. I'm a guitarplayer and a big Hendrix fan and have been looking for good interpertations of Hendrixsongs by other artists. So i found this album by Jean-Paul Bourelly and i couldn't believe my ears!! Did this guy just started to play guitar or something?!! He sounds like he just got home at 7 am, totally ... and ... and picked up his guitar while the vomit is still dripping out of his mouth. It's an insult to Jimi's incredible creative mind to try to sell this to maybe unknowing people, who like to know Hendrix better. If you want to buy a decent coveralbum, buy Stone free. But this is ...!!

Jean Paul is a very fine guitarist but he should never have released this. From some place too close to the Planet Jazzrock, JP has bravely, (i.e avoiding Experience material in the main), set off towards Jimi's blues planet and quite simply overshot. He has missed the point, (not lost the plot, just never found it), and failed badly and sadly to sense what he should have been seeking and would not have needed to seek had he, perhaps innately, understood the blues origins of Jimi's music. What a bitter disappointment this recording is. Only Will Newman's Little Sister, Indigenous, Stevie Ray and a very few others can do the right thing with Jimi's music.

He is fantastic guitar player, and this it's fantastic CD-album. It's sounds better that any JH albums (is it possible?). Yes, it's great!. It's better You can imagine!. Just listen it! I love this sound and this music.

I don't think I can put into words how much Jimi means to me. He is my musical idol!