what made jimi hendrix great?
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 The Experience 's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography states : " Jimi Hendrix 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 . " Musicologist Andy Aledort described Hendrix as " one of the most creative " and " influential musicians that has ever lived " . Music journalist Chuck Philips wrote : " In a field almost exclusively populated by white musicians , Hendrix has served as a role model for a cadre of young black rockers . His achievement was to reclaim title to a musical form pioneered by black innovators like Little Richard and Chuck Berry in the 1950s . " 

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 Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously . In 1967 , readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year , and in 1968 , Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year . Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970 , Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year . The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 . Rolling Stone ranked the band 's three studio albums , Are You Experienced , Axis : Bold as Love , and Electric Ladyland , among the 100 greatest albums of all time , and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time . 

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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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 In 1984 , TIME magazine 's pop critic Jay Cocks wrote that " Jackson is the biggest thing since the Beatles . He is the hottest single phenomenon since Elvis Presley . He just may be the most popular black singer ever . " In 1990 , Vanity Fair cited Jackson as the most popular artist in the history of show business . In 2003 , Daily Telegraph writer Tom Utley described Jackson as " extremely important " and a " genius " . In 2007 , Jackson said : " Music has been my outlet , my gift to all of the lovers in this world . Through it , my music , I know I will live forever . " 

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 Along with writing jingles , Lucas continued with other projects as well . He was hired by Ahmet Ertegun as musical director for the first rock and roll musical , Tom Sankey 's The Golden Screw , which played at the Provincetown Playhouse and won the 1967 Obie Award for Sankey 's concept , writing , and performing . Lucas used a young tape dubber from Gotham Studios named Walter Carlos who had an early Moog synthesizer to compose music for William Claxton 's film Basic Black , a work that is credited as the first " fashion video " and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York . He produced the first recordings of the blues band Raven , enabling them to secure a contract with Columbia Records . He composed the songs " Tell Me a Story " and " Blood " for The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart ( the first movie by actor Don Johnson ) and also composed the theme music for the 1970s children 's series , Jabberwocky , a show which remained in syndication for decades . 
