Editing Jimmy James and the Blue Flames (section)

==Performances==
According to Randy California, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames often played five sets a night, sometimes six days a week for little more than tips.{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=55}} After about a month into their three month stint at the Cafe Wha?, the group, with Hendrix as the focus, began to receive attention from the music establishment. [[Giorgio Gomelsky]] (producer for [[the Yardbirds]]), [[Andrew Loog Oldham]] ([[the Rolling Stones]]), [[John Hammond (producer)|John Hammond]] (Dylan/[[Columbia Records]]), and [[Seymour Stein]] ([[Sire Records]]) were among those who scouted the group's performances.{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=54}}{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|pp=79–81}} Other musicians who caught their sets around New York included members of the Rolling Stones, [[the Lovin' Spoonful]], the [[Paul Butterfield|Paul Butterfield Blues Band]], and the Animals. In an interview, Butterfield guitarist [[Mike Bloomfield]] described Hendrix's guitar work:
{{blockquote|H-bombs were going off, guided missiles were flying{{snd}}I can't tell you the sounds he was getting out of his instrument. He was getting every sound I was ever to hear him get, right there in that room with a [[Fender Stratocaster|Stratocaster]], a [Fender] [[Fender Twin|Twin]] [amplifier], a [[Distortion (music)#Overdrive/distortion pedals|Maestro fuzz]] [box], and that was all{{snd}}he was doing it mainly through extreme volume{{nbsp}}... That day, Hendrix was laying things on me that were more sounds than licks, but I found, after hearing him two or three more times, that he was into pure melodic playing and lyricism as much as he was into sounds. He had melded them into a perfect blend.{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|pp=78–79}}}}

[[John Hammond Jr.]], who recorded several early blues-rock albums with members of [[the Band]], [[Charlie Musselwhite]] and Bloomfield, also became involved with Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. In addition to Hendrix, Hammond had been "particularly impressed with Randy California's [[Slide guitar|slide]] [guitar] technique".{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=80}} After several rehearsals with the group, they backed Hammond during his two-week engagement at the Village's [[Cafe au Go Go]] during late August and September.{{sfn|Brown|1992|p=40}} They were dubbed the "Screaming Night Hawkes{{sic}}",{{sfn|Brown|1992|p=40}} although in a newspaper ad, they were listed as "John Hammond & the Blue Flame".{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=56}}  Hammond remembered [[Al Kooper]] and [[Barry Goldberg]] occasionally sitting in on keyboards{{sfn|Brown|1992|p=40}} and Hendrix performing one solo number by [[Bo Diddley]], possibly "[[I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)|I'm a Man]]".{{sfn|Black|1999|p=48}} Other musicians who recalled their shows include [[Buzzy Linhart]] (who later added [[vibraphone]] to Hendrix's "Drifting"), [[Robbie Robertson]], [[John Sebastian]] and [[Stefan Grossman]].{{sfn|Brown|1992|p=40}}{{sfn|Black|1999|p=49}}