what style of music did jimi hendrix play?
Rock music
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 The American musician Jimi Hendrix ( born November 27 , 1942 ) was one of the most influential guitarists of the 1960s . His Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography says he " was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music . Hendrix expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever ventured before . His boundless drive , technical ability and creative application of such effects as wah @-@ wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll . " 

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 By 1969 , Hendrix was the world 's highest @-@ paid rock musician . In August , he headlined the Woodstock Music and Art Fair that included many of the most popular bands of the time . For the concert , he added rhythm guitarist Larry Lee and conga players Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez . The band rehearsed for less than two weeks before the performance , and according to Mitchell , they never connected musically . Before arriving at the engagement , he heard reports that the size of the audience had grown to epic proportions , which gave him cause for concern as he did not enjoy performing for large crowds . He was an important draw for the event , and although he accepted substantially less money for the appearance than his usual fee he was the festival 's highest @-@ paid performer . As his scheduled time slot of midnight on Sunday drew closer , he indicated that he preferred to wait and close the show in the morning ; the band took the stage around 8 : 00 a.m. on Monday . By the time of their set , Hendrix had been awake for more than three days . The audience , which peaked at an estimated 400 @,@ 000 people , was now reduced to 30 – 40 @,@ 000 , many of whom had waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his performance . The festival MC , Chip Monck , introduced the group as the Jimi Hendrix Experience , but Hendrix clarified : " We decided to change the whole thing around and call it Gypsy Sun and Rainbows . For short , it 's nothin ' but a Band of Gypsys " . 

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 While creating his unique musical voice and guitar style , Hendrix synthesized diverse genres , including blues , R & B , soul , British rock , American folk music , 1950s rock and roll , and jazz . Musicologist David Moskowitz emphasized the importance of blues music in Hendrix 's playing style , and according to authors Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber , " [ He ] explored the outer reaches of psychedelic rock " . His influence is evident in a variety of popular music formats , and he has contributed significantly to the development of hard rock , heavy metal , funk , post @-@ punk , and hip hop music . His lasting influence on modern guitar players is difficult to overstate ; his techniques and delivery have been abundantly imitated by others . Despite his hectic touring schedule and notorious perfectionism , he was a prolific recording artist who left behind numerous unreleased recordings . More than 40 years after his death , Hendrix remains as popular as ever , with annual album sales exceeding that of any year during his lifetime . 

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 Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues . He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain , and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback . He helped to popularize the use of a wah @-@ wah pedal in mainstream rock , and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings . Holly George @-@ Warren of Rolling Stone commented : " Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source . Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion , but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled , fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began . " 

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 In the history of popular music , there are a relative handful of performers who have redefined the content of the music at critical points in history — people whose music left the landscape , and definition of popular music , altered completely . The Kingston Trio were one such group , transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demand — where none had existed before — for young men ( sometimes with women ) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk @-@ like novelty songs in harmony . On a purely commercial level , from 1957 until 1963 , the Kingston Trio were the most vital and popular folk group in the world , and folk music was sufficiently popular as to make that a significant statement . Equally important , the original trio — Dave Guard , Nick Reynolds , and Bob Shane — in tandem with other , similar early acts such as the Limeliters , spearheaded a boom in the popularity of folk music that suddenly made the latter important to millions of listeners who previously had ignored it . 
