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Any idea if those tracks are actual recordings from Middle Earth, or rather studio music "from the era"?

Yeah. Also - he did mention in his autobiography that he was jealous of the popularity and commercial success, which his former musicians gained. Minnie and Songs of Landa sounds a bit like searching for something up-to-date-ish and laid-back.

Morrison was also featured on this weird 4rd entry of Bootleg Series, "At Newport 1955-1975". On CD3 there is a live version of "Mtume" from New York, July 1st, 1975. Minnie is interesting, the softest of all tracks from 70's Miles discography. For me, it's a closure of the 1969-1975 era, showing new direction, that could be clearly heard on the bootleg with 1975-1976 session. And speaking about Morrison, on that sessions there are few takes of "Songs of Landa", another easy piece, and it was co-written by Miles and Sam! I've got mixed feelings toward this stuff. Part of me would like all of it to be officially released and professionally described, the other part thinks it's too trivial for Miles, it feels too much like some of his colleagues that turned commercial in the latter part of 70's. Although maybe this anticipated a bit more easy-going, groovy pieces like "Jean-Pierre"? Anyways... I keep my fingers crossed for any 1971-1975 live box 😁

There is so much more to cover... More of the Jarrett-Bartz band. A separate boxes for 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975... I mostly wish we will hear more from those final electric years. It's incredible that - knowing Miles's physical and mental health were deteriorating - the music from Agharta and Pangaea is so incredible.

"Language of Coltrane and early Ornette Coleman" still sounds pretty free to me. But maybe it's just a dream-talk from my side.

Gato Barbieri - Standards Lost and Found 2 The previous entry was a Buenos Aires 1961 concert, so a very, very early period of Gato. Now we will get a 1968 recording during his Italian period, so we can expect a crispy free-jazz session

Same. Incredibly record, I was blown away with this album.

I'm so happy they're issuing those albums also on CD's. Hope the price would be reasonable too.

Those Farrell's albums are the bomb. Canned Funk is great, but Penny Arcade is 10/10 to me. From that list "Forecast" by Eric Gale was always a disappoint one. Great crew, great year, but the music is weird - but in a good, tripy way.

Originally both Nuits albums were spread over 2 LP's total. Now there are 6, so there will be hell of a new music. What an orgy it's going to be!

It's Renneissance Records, they have released Berkeley 1972 gig last year and it's on official McLaughlin's profile: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-I5bSFuMw7/ Through so many years there was absolutely nothing officially released from the archives besides Montreux 1974/1984 and expanded 1973 gig on Columbia Collection. On the other hand, there were dozens of pirate CD's - the one above looks exactly like one of them (really bad cover, really bad font), but it seems they get along with John somehow. Exactly on December 31st 1973. He was fully devoted to MO at that time, touring with his band days and nights. Band with Santana was made purely for several gigs.

Bought it recently. Excellent job, starting from really wide showcase of Mitchell's transition from "The Hissing" to "Hejira" (with well explained details in the interview in the booklet), Hejira's sessions (Jaco-less tracks, duet with Chaka Khan!) and concerts from that era. Personally I'm glad they mostly omitted "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" era (I can't help it, I just don't like this album - on the other hand it feels a weird, that such a complex set really cuts the chase in so rough manner, just 2 of about 100 tracks?) and got straight to Mingus sessions and a brand-new, full Shadow and Light Tour gig with Metheny, Brecker and Jaco. I also really love the whole box design. It's elegant, it's practical, the booklet is juicy, dripping with facts, trivia and photos. And it's also reasonably priced.

Ok, so I just got all 4 CD's and I'm hugely disappointed by the editorial side. These are the cheapest digipacks possible, on the inside there is only teeny-tiny list of tracks (what a waste of space), and on the backside we've got a very messy scan of back of original LP. By messy I mean it's badly scanned, hard to read and crooked. And yeah, there is no booklet at all, no photos, really lowest effort :(. A serious deterioration compared to previous CD editions, like this: https://www.discogs.com/release/14291219-Perception-Live-At-Le-Stadium

Looks really nice! I'm waiting for my CD set to be delivered.

A no-brainer for me. I'm so happy Souffle is releasing it all-at-once. I only wonder if the complete collection would be also available via Bandcamp and will give access to streaming... that would be sweet.