Between Nothingness & Eternity

Between Nothingness & Eternity is the first live album by jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, released in November 1973 by Columbia Records.^[1] According to the Mahavishnu Orchestra Gigs listing by Walter Kolosky, it was recorded live at the Schaefer Music Festival, held in Central Park, New York, on August 17 and 18, 1973,^[7] even though available recordings indicate that all of the material from the album was taken from the second night only.^[8] Originally, Mahavishnu Orchestra's third album was to be a studio effort, recorded in June 1973 at Trident in London, but was scrapped during the final days of the project; the live album, containing versions of three of the original six tracks, was released instead as the last album during the period of the original line-up of the band. The original studio album was released in 1999 as The Lost Trident Sessions.

Between Nothingness & Eternity
Live album by The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Released	November 1973 (1973-11)
Recorded	August 18, 1973
Venue	Wollman Rink (Central Park, New York City)
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	42:24 43:17 (2011 remix)
Label	Columbia
Producer	Murray Krugman John McLaughlin
The Mahavishnu Orchestra chronology
Birds of Fire (1973) Between Nothingness & Eternity (1973) Apocalypse (1974)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]
Sputnikmusic	4/5[3]
All About Jazz	(favorable)[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]

Between Nothingness & Eternity was included in 2011 as part of The Complete Columbia Albums Collection boxed set, along with the other albums by the first line-up of the band, including The Lost Trident Sessions. This new version was a new different mix with an additional minute of music on "Sister Andrea". The boxed set also contained an album called Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity, which contains other selections from the two Central Park shows.

Track listing

Original vinyl

Side one

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Trilogy: Sunlit Path/La Mere de la Mer/Tomorrow's Story Not the Same"	John McLaughlin	12:16
2.	"Sister Andrea"	Jan Hammer	8:45

Side two

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Dream"	McLaughlin	21:24

"The Complete Columbia Albums Collection" version

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Trilogy: Sunlit Path/La Mere de la Mer/Tomorrow's Story Not the Same"		12:03
2.	"Sister Andrea"		9:53
3.	"Dream"	McLaughlin	21:22

Personnel

• John McLaughlin - guitar
• Jan Hammer - keyboards
• Jerry Goodman - violin
• Rick Laird - bass
• Billy Cobham - percussion

Charts

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[9]	42
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[10]	48
US Billboard 200[11]	41