Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire (1973)

This is another album taken from a box set of 'original album classics', bought about ten years ago on a whim, and consisting of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's first five albums. This is the second of these albums, released in 1973.

Mahavishnu Orchestra was, of course, the band led by son of Doncaster, John McLaughlin, who had cut his teeth in the 1960s in the influential Graham Bond Quartet, as well as playing with Georgie Fame and Brian Augur, then after moving to USA, with Miles Davis on In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew, before teaming up with Jan Hammer on keyboards, and drummer Billy Cobham to lead his own group.