Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s, has been found dead in his Oregon hotel room. He was 61. Erin Patrick, a deputy medical examiner in Multnomah County ...

A jazz-schooled drummer at the forefront of the rock explosion, Mitchell brought the two genres together to devastating effect as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience ...

Redding and Mitchell were drafted into the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966. Mitchell had a rep as a session drummer, auditioned and as legend has it got the gig on a coin toss. Redding was originally ...