Title: Don't waste a penny on this one
Product review: There is a reason this wasn't released in full for almost 30 years. It sucks.Read the liner notes, and even John McLaughlin told the studios not to release it back then, "over his dead body". He has since had a "change of heart", or maybe it was a change in his pocket book, because this CD should have never been put out.All three of these musicians are my personal favorites at their respective instruments, but this recording is absolutely terrible. Tony Williams' drumming is OK (not his best, not like VSOP Quintet) but was miked so poorly that all you hear is cymbals, so overbearing that they wash out everything else. Jaco, well, you can't even hear him on most of this recording, he is so quiet and also miked so poorly. And McLaughlin has a couple moments of Mahavishnu Orchestra-esque potential that never quite blossoms, the rest dragging and uninspired. My comments are the same for the live tracks as for the studio ones as well.
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