Jimi Hendrix recordings from the experienced ones early days will be released more than 40 years after his death.

After decades of lawsuits and court appearances, a deal was reached letting about 88 Jimi Hendrix studio recordings made between 1965 and 1967 see the light of day.

Sony's Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC, the company that oversees Jimi Hendrix's music rights, bought the rights to a collection of historic early recordings late guitar legend was featured on.  Included in the new batch of Jimi Hendrix recordings will be live performances and studio master recordings that Hendrix made with Curtis Knight & the Squires, who he played guitar for before he moved to England and was discovered by Mitch Mitchell and relaunched on America.

Over the next three years these 88 songs recorded with R&B group Curtis Knight and the Squires will be made available to fans.

The deal finally puts to rest years of litigation between the Hendrix family and Ed Chalpin, the record producer who owns the recordings, and his company PPX Enterprises. 

Jimi was a sideman for the Harlem-based R&B group Curtis Knight & the Squires when they signed a three-year contract with Chalpin in October 1965.

The Curtis Knight & the Squires material will be mixed and remastered under the supervision Eddie Kramer, the sound engineer who worked with Hendrix on his Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland and Band of Gypsies albums.

Included in the collection will be is a December 1965 live performance recorded at a club in Hackensack, New Jersey. They will also release a series of studio recordings Hendrix did with Curtis Knight & the Squires in July 1967. Hendrix had already released his debut album with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Before he became famous, Hendrix also did fretwork for The Isley Brothers and Little Richard.

The new deal is happening at just about the same time as the release of Jimi: All Is By My Side, the Jimi Page biopic that will Andre 3000 from Outkast.