MCA continued the series of definitive masters of the Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

 catalogue in 2000, releasing the self-titled box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience, consisting of four discs. The material includes alternate recordings, live performances and some rarities. Although most of the material had been released in earlier compilations, some previously unreleased material (such as live versions of "Killing Floor" and "The Wind Cries Mary") was also included.

The alternative recordings include some tracks from Hendrix's studio albums, even including some from First Rays of the New Rising Sun

First Rays of the New Rising Sun

First Rays of the New Rising Sun is a "concept compilation" attempting to recreate the album Jimi Hendrix was working on at the time of his death in 1970, as closely as is feasible to how he would have wanted it...

. This list includes "Purple Haze", "Highway Chile", "Little Wing", "Gypsy Eyes", "Stone Free", among others. The live songs are taken from performances such as the Monterey Pop Festival

Monterey Pop Festival

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California...

, the Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....

, and the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Festival

The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place every year on the Isle of Wight in England. It was originally held from 1968 to 1970. These original events were promoted and organised by the Foulk brothers under the banner of their company Fiery Creations Limited...

 and includes a near-complete version of Hendrix in the West

Hendrix in the West

Hendrix in the West was a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in January 1972 by Polydor Records, and later in February by Reprise Records...

.

On some tracks, especially on those from Hendrix in the West, the recordings have been slightly altered to clean up the sound, but even when modifications were made the result does not differ too much from the original masterings.

Another edition of this boxed set was released on 28th November 2005, which, under the Universal music group

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

 label, included an exclusive bonus DVD featuring a 30 minute documentary called "Hendrix And The Blues", originally created as part of the 'Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed television documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues shown on PBS in September 2003....

' series. As well as this, this bonus DVD also includes several Live tracks, including "Johnny B. Goode

Johnny B. Goode

"Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock and roll song written and originally performed by American musician Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences peaking at #2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song is one of Chuck Berry's...

" which was recorded live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California on May 30. 1970, "Red House"

Red House (song)

"Red House" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and originally recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966. The song, a slow twelve-bar blues, "is one of the most traditional in sound and form of all his official recordings". It was developed during his pre-Experience days while Hendrix was...

 and "In From The Storm", both of which were recorded live at Isle Of Wight, England on August 30 1970.

Album cover

The cover shot is by Karl Ferris

Karl Ferris

Karl Ferris is an English photographer/designer, best known as one of the principal innovators of "psychedelic" photography. A photographer to the “British Rock Elite” - Eric Clapton, Cream, Donovan, The Hollies and Jimi Hendrix - Ferris was invited - as a style consultant and their personal...

, Jimi's chosen photo/designer for all three US/International "Experience" original albums.

Disc one

1. "Purple Haze
   Purple Haze
   "Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 3:26
2. "Killing Floor (Live)" (Burnett) – 3:05
3. "Hey Joe (Live)" (Roberts
   Billy Roberts
   Billy Roberts is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe"...
   
   ) – 2:52
4. "Foxy Lady
   Foxy Lady
   "Foxy Lady" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their 1967 album Are You Experienced. It can also be found on a number of Hendrix's greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 3:27
5. "Highway Chile
   Highway Chile
   "Highway Chile" is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured as the B-side to their 1967 third United Kingdom single "The Wind Cries Mary"...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 3:40
6. "Hey Joe
   Hey Joe
   "Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
   
   " (Roberts) – 3:06
7. "Title #3" (Hendrix) – 2:12
8. "Third Stone from the Sun
   Third Stone from the Sun
   "Third Stone From the Sun" is a song written and originally recorded by Jimi Hendrix and released as "3rd Stone From The Sun" on the 1967 Are You Experienced album by Jimi Hendrix Experience...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 9:18
9. "Taking Care of No Business" (Hendrix) – 3:42
10. "Here He Comes (Lover Man)" (Hendrix) – 3:02
11. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp
    Burning of the Midnight Lamp
    "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, first released as a mono single b/w "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" in the United Kingdom on August 19, 1967 . It later appeared on the band's final studio album, Electric Ladyland...
    
    " (Hendrix) – 1:30
12. "If 6 Was 9" (Hendrix) – 5:57
13. "Rock Me Baby
    Rock Me Baby (song)
    "Rock Me Baby" is a blues standard that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. When B.B. King released "Rock Me Baby" in 1964, it became a Top 40 hit reaching #34 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song is based on earlier blues songs and has been interpreted and recorded by a...
    
    " (Josea
    Bihari brothers
    The Bihari Brothers, Lester, Jules, Saul and Joe, were American music entrepreneurs and the founders of Modern Records in Los Angeles and its subsidiaries such as Meteor Records based in Memphis.-Origins:...
    
    , King) – 3:20
14. "Like a Rolling Stone (Live)" (Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ) – 6:52

• Tracks 7 and 9 are previously unreleased recordings.
• Tracks 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
• Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 18 1966.
• Tracks 13 and 14 recorded live at the Monterey International Pop Festival, June 18 1967.

Disc two

1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
   Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)
   "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is a song written by Paul McCartney , and first recorded and released in 1967, on the The Beatles' album of the same name. The song appears twice on the album: as the opening track , and as "Sgt...
   
   " (Lennon/McCartney
   Lennon/McCartney
   The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations in history...
   
   ) – 1:51
2. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp (Live)" (Hendrix) – 4:06
3. "Little Wing
   Little Wing
   "Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. It was first recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 3:23
4. "Little Miss Lover" (Hendrix) – 2:21
5. "The Wind Cries Mary (Live)" (Hendrix) – 4:11
6. "Catfish Blues (Live)" (Petway
   Robert Petway
   Robert Petway was an African-American blues singer and guitarist.Very little is known about Robert Petway. His birth place is speculated to have been at or near J.F. Sligh Farm near Yazoo City, Mississippi, birth place of his close friend and fellow bluesman Tommy McClennan. His birth date is...
   
   ) – 5:26
7. "Bold as Love
   Bold as Love (song)
   "Bold as Love" is a song by Jimi Hendrix, the final song and title track of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love.-Recording:...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 7:09
8. "Sweet Angel" (Hendrix) – 4:12
9. "Fire (Live)" (Hendrix) – 2:43
10. "Somewhere" (Hendrix) – 3:48
11. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
    Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
    "Have You Ever Been " is a song by psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1968 third studio album Electric Ladyland...
    
    " (Hendrix) – 1:28
12. "Gypsy Eyes
    Gypsy Eyes
    "Gypsy Eyes" is a song by Jimi Hendrix, performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1968 album Electric Ladyland, and based on the field holler. When released as a double-A-sided single with "Remember", it reached no...
    
    " (Hendrix) – 3:43
13. "Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) – 1:26
14. "Gloria" (Van Morrison
    Van Morrison
    Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
    
    ) – 8:53
15. "It’s Too Bad" (Hendrix) – 8:52
16. "Star Spangled Banner
    The Star-Spangled Banner
    "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...
    
    " (Francis Scott Key
    Francis Scott Key
    Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...
    
    , John Stafford Smith
    John Stafford Smith
    John Stafford Smith was a British composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach....
    
    , arr. Hendrix) (Studio version) – 4:12

• Track 15 is a previously unreleased recording.
• Tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
• Track 16 is a studio recording.
• Tracks 1 and 2 recorded live at Stockholm, Sweden, September 5 1967.
• Tracks 5 and 6 recorded live at Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 9 1967.
• Track 9 recorded live at Clark University
  Clark University
  Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...
  
  , Worcester, MA, March 15 1968.

Disc three

1. "Stone Free" (Hendrix) – 3:43
2. "Spanish Castle Magic
   Spanish Castle Magic
   "Spanish Castle Magic" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Written by Jimi Hendrix and produced by Chas Chandler, it is the third track from their second studio album Axis: Bold as Love...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 5:50
3. "Hear My Train A Comin'
   Hear My Train A Comin'
   "Hear My Train A Comin'" is a blues song written by Jimi Hendrix that he recorded several times between 1967 and 1970 but was not released until after his death...
   
   " (Hendrix) – 6:58
4. "Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) – 7:56
5. "I Don’t Live Today (Live)" (Hendrix) – 6:33
6. "Little Wing (Live)" (Hendrix) – 3:16
7. "Red House (Live)" (Hendrix) – 13:07
8. "Purple Haze (Live)" (Hendrix) – 4:03
9. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Live)" (Hendrix) – 7:53
10. "Izabella" (Hendrix) – 3:40

• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 10 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
• Track 5 recorded live at Los Angeles Forum, CA, April 26 1969.
• Tracks 6 and 9 recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, February 24 1969.
• Tracks 7 and 8 recorded live at San Diego Sports Arena, CA, May 24 1969.

Disc four

1. "Message to Love" (Hendrix) – 3:35
2. "Earth Blues" (Hendrix) – 4:08
3. "Astro Man" (Hendrix) – 4:11
4. "Country Blues" (Hendrix) – 8:27
5. "Freedom" (Hendrix) – 3:52
6. "Johnny B. Goode (Live)" (Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) – 4:46
7. "Lover Man" (Hendrix) – 2:57
8. "Blue Suede Shoes (Live)" (Perkins
   Carl Perkins
   Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954...
   
   ) – 4:28
9. "Cherokee Mist" (Hendrix) – 6:02
10. "Come Down Hard on Me" (Hendrix) – 3:18
11. "Hey Baby/In from the Storm (Live)" (Hendrix) – 8:56
12. "Ezy Ryder" (Hendrix) – 3:43
13. "Night Bird Flying" (Hendrix) – 4:24
14. "All Along the Watchtower (Live)" (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ) – 4:22
15. "In from the Storm (Live)" (Hendrix) – 4:21
16. "Slow Blues" (Hendrix) – 1:46

• Tracks 4, 7, 9 and 16 are previously unreleased recordings.
• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12 and 13 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
• Tracks 6 and 8 recorded live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, May 30 1970. (First Show)
• Track 11 recorded live at Maui, Hawaii, July 30 1970.
• Tracks 14 and 15 recorded live at the Isle of Wight, England, August 30 1970.