Is Jimi Hendrix the best guitar player ever? Yes. Why should you care? Because he's a genius. It's not because he's a wild rock guitarist though. Yes, he has blistering solos, sick as f#*k riffs and can play behind his back and with his teeth but "teeth playing guitarist make not one great" as Yoda would say. It's because of his "slow jams" that he's the whole package. In his short life he made three phenomenal five star albums. This is a great performance.