Complete, but no more than that: where many box sets throw in extra tracks and sleeve notes, all you get here is the originals. Well, one says ‘all’: in fact the top three releases, the eponymous Epic debut, Journey To Love and the classic School Days remain prize examples of the energy and imagination that illumined the best of the era’s jazz rock. Mind you, you’re also lumbered with Modern Man which singlehandedly gives all the ammunition required to those quick to trash all things fusion. Ego, excess, and too many chemical stimulants can convince you that you are many things, but that Clarke should think himself a cosmic Earth, Wind and Fire, was, at the least, bizarre. The box is fleshed out with I Wanna Play For You, now split into its more coherent live/studio components over two CDs, and Live 1976-77 that was released in 1991, probably to remind fans that Clarke, who’d spent most of the 1980s in the film-scoring biz, hadn’t disappeared up his own Alembic. But for those first three albums alone, this box set is worth the investment, while Modern Man should be savoured as a warning to the curious.