Disc One (Alternates): 1. Hot Stuff, 2. Hand Of Fate, 3. Cherry Oh Baby, 4. Memory Motel, 5. Hey Negrita, 6. Melody, 7. Fool To Cry, 8. Crazy Mama, Extra Track: 9. Carnival To Rio.

Disc Two (Unreleased): 1. Let’s Do It Right, 2. Built That Way, 3. I Got A Letter, 4. Cellophane Trousers, 5. I Love Ladies, 6. Munich Reggae, 7. Slave, 8. I Got A Letter, 9. Worried About You, 10. Chuck Berry No., 11. Act Together (Something Good), Extra Track: 12. Get Off Of My Crowd.

This release from Goldplate presents all Black and Blue album tracks as outtakes, newly edited and upgraded with master quality takes, including the best quality possible selections of many unreleased tracks with the first ever cd release of AI edited and restored materials. On each disc are is added an extra track from 1975. Goldplate did already release in 2023 some of these tracks in a compilation called Jamming With Jeff Beck Memorial Special Edition (GP 2301CD 1/2) but here the content has been upgraded drawing from a variety of different sources, using AI to rebalance them enhancing stereo separation and removing unwanted noises.

The first disc presents alternate takes from Black and Blue album, the second disc outtakes. We do start with Hot Stuff which is the instrumental first version with Ollie Brown and Stu on percussions easily discernible on the left channel, followed by Hand Of Fate with distinctive guitar solos by Wayne Perkins. From late 74 Musicland Studios sessions comes Cherry Oh Baby that features Nicky Hopkins on organ; this version of Memory Motel comes from Munich 75 sessions and is an instrumental version with both Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel on guitars and Billy Preston on synthesizer while Hey Negrita is the early take of the song inspired (or written) by Ron Wood that lasts 11.40 minutes. Back in time for this early shot of Melody where we find Billy Preston on vocals and piano. On Fool To Cry early version we get Nicky Hopkins on piano and synthesizer and no backing vocals, but this is the version with finished lyrics; as for this version of Crazy Mama it comes from Rotterdam like Melody and we do get different lyrics too. After these 8 tracks we do get some different outtakes which featured also songs recently released like I Love Ladies and Chuck Berry No. The mastering with the aid of so-called AI presents all stereo tracks in great quality although in my opinion the vocals are a tad too high with regards to the other instruments. Packaging is excellent both inside and outside.