Mitch Mitchell

See also: Mitchell

Mitch Mitchell , (born the June 9th 1947 in Ealing, Middlesex, England) is a Batteur. It is especially known to have worked with Jimi Hendrix.

Biography

It is one of the most influential beaters of the end of the year 1960 and the beginning of the year 1970. It entered the legend with its work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience in particular on songs like Manic Depression , and Third Stone from the Sun .

Mitchell had a formation of beater of jazz but also was very influenced by Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, and Art Blakey. Its innovative style will be later known under the name of fusion. It puts the battery ahead and is not satisfied any more to structure the song with the low one.

Mitchell is certainly the musical collaborator of most important Hendrix. He plays with him in the trio Jimi Hendrix Experience of 1966 until the middle of 1969, like in Woodstock in August 1969 and in the group Cry off Coils in 1970.

After the death of Hendrix, he undertakes with engineer Eddie Kramer to finish the production of the incomplete recordings of Hendrix which will leave on posthumous albums as Cry off Coils and Rainbow Bridge .

In 1972, it joins the guitarists April Lawton and Mike Pinera to form Ramatam. They record an album and open several concerts of ELP. He also plays in concerts for Terry Reid, Jack Bruce, and Jeff Beck.

From the end of the year 1970, Mitchell is done more discrete, making some recordings as on Long Walk Home of Junior Brown and taking part in the recordings, vidéos and interviews relative to Hendrix.

More recently, he was member of the group Gypsy Sun Experience with the former bass player of Hendrix Billy Cox and the guitarist Gary Serkin.

Discography

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