Mike Stern

Mike Stern :


Guitarist-composer-bandleader apprenticed with Billy Cobham before joining Miles Davis’ band in 1980. Also played with Steps Ahead, Vital Information, the Brecker Bros.

I really dug tunes like “The Wind Cries Mary” from Are You Experienced?, which was the freshest-sounding album of its time, and “One Rainy Wish” from Axis: Bold as Love. Jimi’s playing on those tunes is so incredibly lyrical. It has that same singing quality that I dig in Jim Hall’s playing or in Wes Montgomery’s playing, but the thing about Hendrix was he had that sound, he would articulate that lyrical feeling with a fatter sound on his Strat than you could get with a regular hollow-bodied jazz guitar.

Jimi was definitely a legato player, and whether he intended to or not, he started a movement among guitar players with his long sustaining, legato lines. He sounded more like a horn player than anyone before him, and he influenced everybody that followed him. I’m after that same hornlike quality in my own playing whether I’m playing in a straightahead bag or in a more rock vein. When I was playing with Miles he was always saying things to me like, “Play some Hendrix! Turn it up or turn it off!” Miles loved Hendrix. Jimi and Charlie Christian were his favorite cats as far as guitarists are concerned.

Source : http://jazztimes.com/articles/20150-jimi-hendrix-modern-jazz-axis

Mike Stern (né le 10 janvier 1953) est un guitariste américain de jazz-fusion.
Il s'est fait connaître en jouant avec le groupe Blood, Sweat and Tears à l'âge de 22 ans, mais c'est Miles Davis qui lui offrira la consécration en le faisant jouer sur les albums The Man with the Horn, Star People et We Want Miles.


"Jimi hendrix a sonné davantage comme un "soufflant" que quiconque avant lui, et il a exercé de l'influence sur tous ceux qui ont suivi. Je recherche cette même qualité proche d'un instrument à vent dans mon jeu de guitare, que je joue du Jazz classique ou dans une veine plus rock. Quand je jouait avec Miles, il me disait toujours des trucs comme : "Joue comme Hendrix".
Miles adorait Hendrix. Jimi et Charlie Christian étaient ses guitaristes de jazz favoris."

(C'est grosso modo la traduction du 2ième paragraphe du sujet de Titi)

(Source : Hendrix - l'Enfant Vaudou (collectif) [2010] aux éditions Consart)