The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Jimi Hendrix (vocals, electic guitar); Noel Redding (vocals, bass); Mitch Mitchell (drums, background vocals).

Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England.

Originally released on Reprise.

Includes liner notes by Jym Fahey.

Personnel: Jimi Hendrix (vocals, guitar); Trevor Burton, Roy Wood (vocals); Mitch Mitchell (drums).

Audio Remasterers: Eddie Kramer; George Marino; Joe Gastwirt.

Liner Note Author: Michael Fairchild.

Photographers: Gered Mankowitz; Eddie Kramer; Leni Sinclair; Ron Rafaelli; Baron Wolman; David Sygall; Ed Thrasher; Bruce Fleming; Linda McCartney.

Unknown Contributor Roles: Gary Leeds; Graham Nash.

AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE was the follow-up to ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities. Where his live shows continued to showcase the raw rocking power of the Experience, the recording studio gave Hendrix the composer/arranger a broader palette.

There are still plenty of powerful blues/rock-inflected songs, such as the menacing "If 6 Was 9," the rolling "Spanish Castle Magic" and the spatial title tune. But "Up From The Skies" is a jazzy trio romp, featuring Hendrix's bluesy, vocalized wah-wah pedal. And on the ballads "Little Wing" and "Castles Made Of Sand," Hendrix shifts the focus from the band to the silvery chord/melody accompaniments he often employed to complement his vocals. They are an orchestral effect unto themselves.