Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Paul McCartney supergroup was mooted
Jimi Hendrix sent telegram to Beatles star Paul McCartney in 1969 asking him to record in a supergroup with jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. As supergroups go, it would have been up there with music’s most intriguing and celebrated: Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams and Sir Paul McCartney.
It’s been long known that jazz trumpeter Davis and guitarist Hendrix had been toying with plans to record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in 1970. But a piece of memorabilia, which has been on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Prague, confirms that they were also trying to recruit McCartney as the bass player. Williams, one of the best jazz drummers of the 1960s, was also lined up for the group.
A telegram (complete with a typographical error, below) that Hendrix sent to McCartney at The Beatles’ Apple Records in London on October 21, 1969, told him to get in touch with producer Alan Douglas:
“We are recording and LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams.”
Source: The Telegraph
