The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions is great as music and as a way of seeing the direction that so many of the musicians involved in the recordings would go on their own. The early sounds of Weather Report (Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul), the Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin), Chick Corea’s Return To Forever, and Tony Williams’ Lifetime, and Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi (not to mention Miles Davis’ own groups of the early 70′s) are all heard on these tracks.