Jimi Hendrix & Traffic - Lover Man Oil Well 123 CD

Jimi Hendrix & Traffic  - Lover Man
Oil Well 123 CD

01. Jam Thing (19.39)
02. Guitar Thing (5:15)
03. Session Thing (35.27)

Note:
All songs by Jimi Hendrix
Live in Seattle, WA  - June 3, 1968 

Track 1 recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY, 15th July 1970
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant, 14th November 1969
Track 3 recorded at Studio B, TTG Studios, Los Angeles, Tuesday 29 October 1968.

Lineup:
Jimi Hendrix (vocals, guitars),
Steve Winwood (piano on track 1, drums on track 3?)

Chris Wood (flute on track 1)

Noel Redding (bass on track 3)
Mitch Mitchell (drums on track 3)
Dave Palmer (drums on track 1)
Buddy Miles (drums on track 2)
Noel Redding (bass on track 3?)
Jack Casady (bass on track 3)
Billy Cox (bass on track 1)
Graham Bond (organ on track 3)
Jim Horn (flute on track 3)
Lee Michaels (organ on track 3?)

This album is a digital clone of: Jimi Hendrix & Traffic: A Session (CD, Oh Boy 1-9027).
This is the often talked session that Jimi recorded with some members  of Traffic, Steve Winwood's band at the time. A tape of jams billed as Hendrix and Traffic has circulated among collectors for years.
This album is a compilation made of three songs from three different studio sessions: one at Electric Lady Studio on 15.06.1970; one at Record Plant on 14th November 1969 and one at TTG Studios, 1441 N.McCadden Street, Hollywood  on 29 October 1968.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended. The picture of the front cover is from Zurich May 30th 1968 with: Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall, Eric Burdon, Steve Winwood, Carl Wayne. Of these people only Steve Winwood and of course Hendrix appear on this bootleg as performers.
Excellent quality recording.

Jam Thing: Jimi Hendrix (guitar), Steve Winwood (piano and drums?), Chris Wood (flute), Billy Cox (bass) - source  Jimi's Private Reels Vol. 2 : The Generation Club Reels & Jamming With Friends; Dave Palmer (drums);
Guitar Thing: Jimi Hendrix (guitar), Buddy Miles (drums)
Session Thing: Noel Redding (bass), Mitch Mitchell (drums), Graham Bond or Lee Michaels (organ), Jim Horn (flute)

The insert states that the session "was recorded at an unknown place in the late 60's".
In this bootleg release from Oh Boy Record the lineup is listed as Jimi Hendrix (guitar), Steve Winwood (piano), Chris Wood (flute), Rick Grech (bass), and Jim Capaldi (drums), but this is wrong. Only Hendrix is identifiable with certainty in every track.

This album is a purely instrumental affair.  The music on the tape consists of some jams that, in contrast to Traffic's usual melodic sensibilities, range from minor key to almost atonal structure. Some of the magic of the "Voodoo Chile" session is also evident on this recording. The jams sound basically spontaneous, organized around particular keys with shifting tempos, and lack a distinct song structure. None of them sound like they were even intended to have vocal parts. For the most part, the piano and drums drive the rhythms while the guitar and flute solo. The extraordinary aspect of the recording is the complementary interplay between Jimi Hendrix and the flautist. While Jimi builds upon driving vamps that eventually erupt into molten solos, Chris Wood (?) counterbalances with his usual delicate, mellowing flute. The result of this collaboration is at least interesting, and sometimes magical. Unlike other Hendrix jam sessions, Jimi seems to have a lot of respect for Traffic and doesn't fully dominate the proceedings, which makes the session perhaps unique to both entities.

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"Jam Thing" Electric Lady Studio, New York City, NY 15.06.1970
This track was recorded during a studio session on  June 15, 1970, in New York City.  Jimi holds his first recording session in the new Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street in the heart of Greenwich Village. Hendrix invites his friends Steve Winwood and Chris Wood from Traffic into the studio where they quickly break into a jam session. With Mitch Mitchell unavailable Eddie Kramer volunteered Dave Palmer to sit in behind the drums for the session. 

Jimi does snippets of a few of the songs he was working on around this time, but most of this is just jamming. As the night progressed, Jimi was able to coax Wood and Winwood into providing some backing vocals on ”Ezy Rider” which Jimi was carrying over from his stints at the Record Plant. Also put to tape on this night were renditions of Traffic’s own “Pearl Queen” and Winwood’s own “Rhythm Ace.” Work soon progressed to Jimi’s composition, “Valleys Of Neptune” before segueing into a loose untitled jazz-focused jam and later a track titled “Slow Blues.” Jenny Dean, a mutual friend of Jimi and Winwood, offered backing vocals on the later recording. This lineup also performed: JS26, Session Thing (that includes Sunshine of your love, Tomorrow never knows), Jam Thing (inclused Gypsy Boy), All God's Children.

"Jam Thing" is also known as "Instrumental Jam" and has been released on: Jimi's Private Reels Vol. 2 : The Generation Club Reels & Jamming With Friends - Dandelion ‎– DL 103.
This last album has got three tracks from the 1970s sessions with the two members of Traffic: Instrumental Jam 5:20 (a shorter version of Jam Thing); Hey Baby (The Land Of The New Rising Sun) 14:45; Villanova Junction Blues 10:51. Credits for these three last songs are: Billy Cox on bass. Chris Wood on saxophone and Stevie Winwood on piano and drums and not Dave Palmer (whom maybe played on the other tracks from the session).

"Guitar Thing" Record Plant - 14.11.1969 
This tracks is from a studio session at Record Plant, in New York form November 14, 1969. Hendrix and Buddy Miles continue with another day of jamming by themselves. Billy Cox is not in these sessions.

Guitar Thing is part of the Medley:  Lonely Avenue / Power Of Soul / Burning Desire / Send My Love To Linda / Gypsy Boy (New Rising Sun) / Cherokee Mist / Stepping Stone / Villanova Junction / Ezy Rider / South Saturn Delta released on: ATM 009: Band of Gypsys: Lonely Avenue and then in better quality on: ATM 092: Fall 1969 Record Plant Jams [aka. Woodstock].
This track is also known as: JS21, Guitar Improvvisation and as Lonely Avenue Part 1 [Untitled Guitar Improv] [BR1, #6-7] and has been released in the 16cds unofficial box Studio '69 (WJ 101-115).

Some tracks from this studio session with Buddy Miles (Jungle, Keep On Groovin') have been released officially in 2000 on Morning Symphony Ideas by Dagger Records.

“Session Thing”  TTG Studios, Hollywood, CA 29.10.1968
“Session Thing” was initially believed to be part of the Jam with Stevie Winwood and Chris Wood from Traffic at Electric  Lady Studios 15.06.70 but has later been determined to come from TTG Studios 29.10.68.

Around this song there is a bit of confusion because the title "Session Thing" refers to two different songs recorded in two different moments. The track in this bootleg is taken from  a studio session recorded on 29-10-1968. The other"Session Thing [Valley Of Neptune]" is of 31:16 minutes: actually recorded with some members of Traffic on 15.06.1970 and released on the bootleg collection: "Every Way To Paradise" CD2 - Tintagel ‎– TIBX 0021/22/23/24

Jimi Hendrix and The Experience had just completed 6 shows in 3 days at the historic Winterland Ballroom in San Fracnsico, CA a few weeks prior to booking time at TTG Studios, the most advanced studio set up of its time, having the only 16 track recorder around! Jimi, Mitch and Noel settled into a rented house in Benedict Canyon where they resided and had lavish parties, one of which almost killed Hendrix as he was stopped by a boulder before going off the side of a cliff in one of his many Corvettes. Jimi and his band were becoming more disconected.

The amount of material pulled from just the trio of Mitch, Noel and Jimi was very little and the amount of musicians who would join Hendrix during his stay at TTG is a direct reflection of how the band had come to operate as a unit. The Experience had just finished their masterpiece, Electric Ladyland and would eventually release it during their time at TTG Studios. This would prove to be the bands first attempts on recordings for new songs to be included on the bands 4th LP. Little did the band know, Hendrix and The Experience would split up before an album of new material could be realized and released.
Guest appearances in this session by Jack Casady on bass, Graham Bond on keyboards and maybe Lowell George on flute. It was initially believed Lee Michaels played keyboards on the 29.10.68 sessions, but new information seems to suggests it was really Graham Bond.

About Casady on "Session Thing," I have always been amazed that no one comments on that fact that the bassist can be clearly heard.  Given that Traffic had no regular bassist at this point, the question arises as to who this bassist might be. Jack Casady of the Airplane was in the studio (and of the Voodoo Chile session on ELL with Windwood and Hendrix) and that at 17:43 of the track the bassist starts playing the bass line from the Airplane's "Bear Melt."

On 29 October 1968  was performed also: Lover Man (Intro), Lover Man (aka Here He Comes) Session Thing (here released), Gloria (released officially on The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two for Reprise in July 1979), Red House (released on Raw Blues and released as Electric Church-Red House in Blues 1994). Engineer of the session was Angel Balestier, Second engineer - Mark Kauffman. The stunning "Electric Church-Red House" features both Mitchell on drums, Redding on Bass, and Lee Michaels on organ.

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