Jimi Hendrix Recordings Released (Update):  Jimi Hendrix recordings of early session work he did with the band Curtis Knight and The Squires are set to be remastered and released. After decades of lawsuits and court appearances, about 88 Jimi Hendrix studio recordings made between 1965 and 1967 are ready to be experienced.

After years of lawsuits from Experience Hendrix LLC, the Hendrix family estate, Legacy Recordings is getting set to put out 88 songs from early sessions more than forty years after his death. Jimi was a sideman for the Harlem-based R&B group Curtis Knight & the Squires when they signed a three-year contract with Ed Chalpin in October 1965. Terms for the deal have not been revealed.

Jimi Hendrix never really liked the recordings, saying they were "musically worthless...a confetti of tapes hastily thrown together."

Capitol Records put out a record called "Jimi Hendrix Plays, Curtis Knight Sings" in February 1968. Rolling Stone said the record was "an embarrassment."

A Capitol Records A&R guy shot back by saying "the record's selling well, and nobody is bitching but a few San Francisco types." Rolling Stone was headquartered in San Francisco at the time

In March 1968, the British record label Decca tried to put out a Curtis Knight record titled Got That Feeling with Hendrix on the cover, but London's High Court barred the album from release.

Sony's Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC, the company that oversees Jimi Hendrix's music rights, bought the rights to a collection of historic early recordings late guitar legend was featured on.  Included in the new batch of Jimi Hendrix recordings will be live performances and studio master recordings that Hendrix made with Curtis Knight & the Squires, who he played guitar for before he moved to England and was discovered by Chas Chandler and relaunched on America.

The Curtis Knight & the Squires material will be mixed and remastered under the supervision Eddie Kramer, the sound engineer who worked with Hendrix on his Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland and Band of Gypsies albums. The recordings will be released over the next three years.

Included in the collection will be is a December 1965 live performance recorded at a club in Hackensack, New Jersey. They will also release a series of studio recordings Hendrix did with Curtis Knight & the Squires in July 1967. Hendrix had already released his debut album with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Before he became famous, Hendrix also played guitar for The Isley Brothers and Little Richard.

The new deal is happening at just about the same time as the release of Jimi: All Is By My Side, the Jimi Page biopic that will Andre 3000 from Outkast.