This set – with facsimile cover art of the original 12-inch LP reduced to CD size cardboard sleeves – documents the beginning of Keith Jarrett's career as a leader on record. Debuting on the Vortex label (the Atlantic label subsidiary) on Life Between the Exit Signs (1967), Restoration Ruin (1968) and Somewhere Before (1968) he moved to Atlantic proper with The Mourning of a Star (1971) and El Jucio (1975). All produced by George Avakian they have been the subject of several reissue programmes here, in the US and in Japan and collectively document Jarrett's early work with his trio of Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. The exception is the solo – and even now controversial – Restoration Ruin where Jarrett sings and plays all instruments himself which should be viewed as a product of its (rock influenced) times and El Jucio, the latter being the trio with the addition of tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman that would become known as The American Quartet. Quite why Birth – the first appearance of Redman with the trio – was not included to complete Jarrett's Atlantic years remains one of life's little mysteries.