{"id":1934,"date":"2019-12-05T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:50:32","slug":"james-marshall-jimi-hendrix-we-had-no-sonic-reference-or-why-he-was-important-nelson-george-author-and-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/05\/james-marshall-jimi-hendrix-we-had-no-sonic-reference-or-why-he-was-important-nelson-george-author-and-filmmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marshall Jimi Hendrix We had no sonic reference Or why he was important *Nelson George  author and filmmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1935\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.png 1280w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-1024x504.png 1024w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-700x345.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Nelson George is an established author and filmmaker with a passion for telling stories of the black experience in America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"inductee-category\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tn-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2952\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tn-10.jpg\" alt=\"tn-10\" width=\"88\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inductee-category\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmealtoday.com\/\">www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsman.com\/\">www.spiritsman.com, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectskintoday.com\/\">www.perfectskintoday.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfecttraveltoday.com\/\">www.perfecttraveltoday.com, <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmealtoday.com\/\">www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmusictoday.com\/\">www.perfectmusictoday.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectgolftoday.com\/\">www.perfectgolftoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 12\/5\/19\/&#8211;So thankful to be able to share with you this short animated film in which Nelson George* reads excepts from the liner notes he wrote for the just-released\u00a0<strong><em>Hendrix Songs For Groovy Children\/The Fillmore East Concerts.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>It\u2019s\u00a0the audio document, produced by Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott, of the four shows that Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys performed at the Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson was a kid in Brooklyn\u2019s Brownsville ghetto at that time when soul and salsa ruled the day and rock was, in a way, somewhat foreign. The music that Hendrix, along with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, made over those two nights catalyzed a paradigm shift in the world of Black Music, the reverberations from which are still being felt today. \u00a0Today a new animated video was launched in which you can hear him talk about\u00a0<em>Music That Changed Lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1937\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/52.jpg 640w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/52-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Nelson George is an established author and filmmaker with a passion for telling stories of the black experience in America. George is the author of several ground breaking histories of African American music, including\u00a0<em>Where Did Our Love Go: the Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Death of Rhythm &amp; Blues<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Hip Hop America<\/em>. As a novelist he has written several popular novels with music themes (<em>The Accidental Hunter<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Plot Against Hip Hop<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Lost Treasures of R&amp;B<\/em>). He is currently working on the fourth installment of his D. Hunter mystery series.<\/p>\n<p>In television, George was a producer on the Emmy Award winning\u00a0<em>The Chris Rock Show<\/em>\u00a0(HBO), a producer on\u00a0<em>Hip Hop Honors<\/em>\u00a0(VH1), and executive producer of the high rated\u00a0<em>American Gangster<\/em>\u00a0crime series (BET).<\/p>\n<p>Travel has also been one of his major subjects, as he hosted\u00a0<em>Soul Cities<\/em>\u00a0for the VH1 Soul Channel and\u00a0<em>Black Atlas<\/em>\u00a0web series for American Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>As a filmmaker George has co-written the screenplays to\u00a0<em>Strictly Business\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>CB4<\/em>. He directed Queen Latifah to a Golden Globe in the HBO film\u00a0<em>Life Support<\/em>,\u00a0which he also co-wrote. He has directed a number of documentaries including\u00a0<em>Finding the Funk<\/em>\u00a0(VH1),\u00a0<em>The Announcement<\/em>\u00a0(ESPN), and\u00a0<em>Brooklyn Boheme<\/em>\u00a0(Showtime). His theatrical documentary on ballerina Misty Copeland is called A\u00a0<em>Ballerina&#8217;s Tale<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0He is a writer\/producer on\u00a0<em>The Get Down\u00a0<\/em>(Netflix), which premiers on August. In 2016, he directed\u00a0<em>The Real MVP<\/em>\u00a0movie (Lifetime). Nelson does most of his work through his production company, Urban Romances.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1936\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1.png 1280w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-1-700x305.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Click to see\/hear:<b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sk0YdZpW95I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DSk0YdZpW95I&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575642967040000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEnJXnY0Wsx1z-UV4GiCQiyNB2lw\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.<wbr \/>com\/watch?v=Sk0YdZpW95I<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"inductee-category\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tn-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2952\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tn-10.jpg\" alt=\"tn-10\" width=\"88\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inductee-category\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n<p>287 S.Robertson Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/search.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3012\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/search.jpeg\" alt=\"search\" width=\"105\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmealtoday.com\/\">www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:perfectmealtoday@gmail.com\">perfectmealtoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSpiritsman\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSpiritsman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/spiritsman\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/passets-ec.pinterest.com\/images\/about\/buttons\/follow-me-on-pinterest-button.png\" alt=\"Follow Me on Pinterest\" width=\"169\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsman.com\/\">www.spiritsman.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mrspiritsman@gmail.com\">mrspiritsman@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectskintoday.com\/\">www.perfectskintoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:perfectskintoday@gmail.com\">perfectskintoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfecttraveltoday.com\/\">www.perfecttraveltoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:perfecttraveltoday@gmail.com\">perfecttraveltoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmealtoday.com\/\">www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:perfectmealtoday@gmail.com\">perfectmealtoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectgolftoday.com\/\">www.perfectgolftoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:perfectgolftoday@gmail.com\">perfectgolftoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmusictoday.com\/\">www.perfectmusictoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:perfectmusictoday@gmail.com\">perfectmusictoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.champagnewinemaison.com\/\">www.champagnewinemaison.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:champagnewinemaison@gmail.com\">champagnewinemaison@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alquimie.com.au\/publication\/\">http:\/\/alquimie.com.au\/publicatio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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