I love the earliest and earlier Miles, but I find bebop and hard bop too strict a formula for me to enjoy hour after hour of listening year after year. When Miles moved into the modal and then freer jazz forms he really came into his own for me.
I splurged and bought some of the recent Columbia/Sony Legacy Hendrix LP reissues. The original core lps were among the first lps I bought and went into a frenzied listening orbit over back in my teens, and the nostalgic element is a large draw for me. Plus Hendrix has always remained an important artist in my life, influencing me as a musician, a music lover, and human being. I read that Columbia/Sony did a great job with these and they did: great covers, 180 gram LPs, RTI pressed. They sound simply amazing. If I'd heard them like this forty years ago I probably would have just had my head explode.
Axis sounds astonishingly good on this pressing.