LONDON, Dec 10 — A legal dispute over the rights to recordings made by the 1960s British-American rock band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, went to trial on Tuesday at the High Court in London.

Owners of the estates of Hendrix’s British bandmates, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, are suing Sony Music Entertainment UK arguing they were shut out of royalties for decades despite the continued commercial use of the band’s recordings.