sorry if the release date has already been posted.

from icemagazine.com:


THIRD OF A CENTURY after his untimely death, Jimi Hendrix remains an extraordinarily powerful force on music. With the exception of 1995’s Revenge: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix on Gravity Records, the most influential guitarist in modern rock history has not had a tribute album in his honor since the Hendrix family-owned Experience Hendrix Records’ 1993 release Stone Free, which sold a tidy 600,000 units. Amends will be made on May 4 with the star-studded Power of Soul, also on Experience Hendrix, distributed by Image Entertainment. Part of the disc’s proceeds will benefit the United Negro College Fund.

Jimi’s half-sister Janie Hendrix is the overseer of his catalog, and co-executive produced Power of Soul with husband Sheldon Reynolds, former guitarist/vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire. They, along with longtime Hendrix reissue producer John McDermott, gathered a collective of present and, possibly, future Hall-of-Fame artists to pay homage to Hendrix’s legacy.

"This has really been a long-time dream of mine since I was a kid," Ms. Hendrix tells ICE. "While growing up, I used to watch all these different artists being touched by Jimi. But Jimi would say, ‘Don’t put me in a bag of being rock & roll, because it’s not just one genre.’ It would frustrate him. I always thought it would be cool to get artists that are really more into blues and R&B, and make it more of an album that had those roots in it. I expressed that to Sheldon and John, and [from there] it just snowballed."

I was just reading about this CD (having listened to two other Hendrix tribute discs this evening).

I can't wait!