Jimmy Hendrix bassist dies

NEW YORK (Track Records) - Noel Redding, bass player for 1960s rock legend Jimi Hendrix, has died aged 57.

His manager Ian Grant announced the news on his company Track Records' website. "Noel re-unites with Jimi and.....his mother Margaret who died only a few weeks ago," he wrote. No cause of death was given.

Redding backed Hendrix on his 1967 debut album Are You Experienced, along with drummer Mitch Mitchell, forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The album established Hendrix as a singer and composer as well a pioneering electric guitarist, with tracks such as Hey Joe and Purple Haze.
But Hendrix dissolved the group shortly before his death in 1970.

Royalties

Recently, Redding had been unhappy about winning royalties for some of his recordings. He accepted a $100,000 payment in the 1970s after being told there would be no more releases of Jimi Hendrix Experience material.
But this was before the invention of compact discs and other formats.

In February, he announced plans to sue Experience Hendrix, the company which looks after the Hendrix back catalogue, for up to $5m (�3.26m) in what he said were lost earnings.

At the time, Ian Grant said Redding did not "receive a single pence for the use of his image or performance. I see a lot of people making money out of Noel, but I don't see Noel getting any of it," he said.

Experience Hendrix also announced the news of Redding's death on its website saying: "Our prayers go out to his family and friends at this difficult time."