This 1997 reissue of AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE is a newly remastered version that restores the original album artwork. It is among the first batch of albums on Experience Hendrix, a new label controlled by Hendrix's family.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience:

• Jimi Hendrix (vocals, electic guitar);
  
• Noel Redding (vocals, bass);
  
• Mitch Mitchell (drums, background vocals).
  

Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England. Originally released on Reprise. Includes liner notes by Jym Fahey. Personnel: Jimi Hendrix (vocals, guitar); Trevor Burton, Roy Wood (vocals); Mitch Mitchell (drums).Audio Remasterers: Eddie Kramer; George Marino; Joe Gastwirt.Liner Note Author: Michael Fairchild.Photographers: Gered Mankowitz; Leni Sinclair; Eddie Kramer; Ron Rafaelli; Baron Wolman; David Sygall; Ed Thrasher; Bruce Fleming; Linda McCartney. Unknown Contributor Roles: Gary Leeds; Graham Nash.AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE was the follow-up to ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities. Where his live shows continued to showcase the raw rocking power of the Experience, the recording studio gave Hendrix the composer/arranger a broader palette. There are still plenty of powerful blues/rock-inflected songs, such as the menacing "If 6 Was 9," the rolling "Spanish Castle Magic" and the spatial title tune. But "Up from the Skies" is a jazzy trio romp, featuring Hendrix's bluesy, vocalized wah-wah pedal. And on the ballads "Little Wing" and "Castles Made of Sand," Hendrix shifts the focus from the band to the silvery chord/melody accompaniments he often employed to complement his vocals. They are an orchestral effect unto themselves.