would you recommend greg tate's midnight lightning book on hendrix?

i dont mind the 'oh look, black women think hendrix is hot!' section, but it does read like a poor supplement in cosmo.

Starting point for Hendrix (finishing point, too, as far as I'm concerned): Crosstown Traffic.

The New York Open Center is having Greg Tate, Ned Sublette and Garnette Cadogan do presentations that look interesting (if a bit pricey)

The Ritual of Music: From Deep Feeling to Dope Beats

Greg Tate
"Artists are here to disturb the peace." —James Baldwin
This evening the provocative musician and art and cultural analyst Greg Tate will look at how certain types of popular music embody and communicate ritual and how they can both move us and shake us up. What does music have to do with man, god, mother nature, society and the mysteries that empower us?

How do Voodoo, Rastafarianism, pagan spirituality and other visceral spiritual traditions give music a potency that seeps into and refreshes our consciousness? Join Greg as he explores how black music—jazz, funk, soul, blues, R&B, reggae, hip hop-uses ritual to become a creative force that forms us.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Thursday, October 30, 8–10pm

10/23: The Musician as Religious Ambassador- Bob Marley and the Rise of Rastafarianism with Garnette Cadogan http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1959/5/

10/30: The Ritual of Music- From Deep to Dope Beats with Greg Tate http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1952/5/

11/06: The Roots: Havana and New Orleans with Ned Sublette http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1953/5/