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Live in Ottawa

live album by Jimi Hendrix

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ2743956 ↗
Source-derived summary

Live in Ottawa is a posthumous live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on October 23, 2001 by Dagger Records. The album documents the band's second performance at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on March 19, 1968. Three tracks from the first set were later issued in September 2008 on Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Live in Ottawa” as live album by Jimi Hendrix. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Live, Ottawa and live.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1968, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Live, Ottawa and live providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Live in Ottawa”, the useful work is to connect “live album by Jimi Hendrix” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2743956. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1968 and 2008.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Live in Ottawa”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Live in Ottawa primary sources, Live in Ottawa archive and Live research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live in Ottawa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.