hendrix's 'easy blues'

Taken from a series of instrumental jams and improvisations in 1969, 'Easy Blues' is a rare sight of Hendrix beginning to experiment and find some foothold with jazz.
It's well documented that he and Miles Davis had discussed music and even a possible recording session together before it's said, that notion dissolved into demands for "upfront cash" from Davis.
After 20 years of basically being ripped off by record companies Davis was cute to the industry by the time the Hendrix negotiations were taking place and he also new rock had one major difference to jazz by 1969. Money.
Miles Davis goes on to hire John McLaughlin for his innovative new era of fusing rock with jazz in the shape of the album Bitches Brew, but as you'll here in 'Easy Blues' there are more than enough glimpses of just what Hendrix would have sounded like if that liaison had succeeded. With a walking bass so often used in jazz laying the background to Hendrix's floating lead lines, sounding not unlike Davis's trumpet licks over a loping rhythm, he resolves them into a free formed chopped rhythm which sound at times uncannily like McLaughlin on Davis' Jack Johnson (preceded Bitches Brew), that too played over a walking bass line.
'Easy Blues' is included on the most recent Hendrix album of unissued sessions "People, Hell & Angels" (2013), and if the sum of that is one more release in the exploitation of the mans name at least the track 'Easy Blues' is an idea of how Jimi's music might have evolved from 1970 onward.
It is as always, a glimpse of a master at work.