From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com>

All of the material from 'Circling In,' recorded on October 13 and 19, 1970, was remastered and issued on CD by Blue Note in 1992, titled 'Early Circle' and released under Corea's name.

this is not the whole story: on 'Circling In' are 7 tracks with Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes and 2 Circle tracks without Braxton, which are all missing on 'Early Circle'. Fortunately I´ve got a used copy of 'Circling In' for a reasonable price and in fairly good condition some weeks ago.

Completely unrelated to the above, you probably already know that the two Circle LPs on Japanese CBS, 'Live in Germany' (November 1970 - versions of "Medley: Toy Room/Q&A" and "There Is No Greater Love") have been released on expensive Japanese CDs under Corea's own Stretch imprint. There was some talk of them being reissued by the domestic branch of the label as well, but that seems not to have happened. Lord knows I'm too cheap to spring for the imports, in this case. Anybody heard 'em?

I´ve heard 'Live in Germany' only once and it doesn´t offer so much more essentials and don´t have good sound quality (if memory serves). I´ll check it again soon... Andreas np: George Russell - Stratusphunk _________________________________________________________________ Testen Sie MSN Messenger für Ihren Online-Chat mit Freunden: http://messenger.msn.com