Neville Marten, Mick Taylor, Jamie Dickson, Matt Brown, Eric Mylod-Okafo

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s astonishing debut album ‘Are You Experienced’the Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival is proud to present a complete live performance of this seminal psychedelic recording, including landmark tracks such as Purple Haze and Hey Joe that originally appeared only on the American pressing.

From the searing blues of Red House to thespace-rock odyssey of Third Stone From The Sun, the album remains as viscerally exciting as it was in 1967, when its primal howls of feedback struck the British music scene like a thunderbolt from rock’s heavens. Its raw, vital energy emanated from Hendrix’s extraordinary performances on guitar, always deeply rooted in the blues but extending upwards into the very cosmos as Jimi unleashed the full power of his extraordinary talent through towering Marshall amplifiers.