Beckology by guitarist Jeff Beck was released in 1991 as a 3 CD career retrospective. Beckology covers the work of a guitarist widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted exponents of the electric guitar from early days with The Tridents through to his Guitar Shop album in 1989.

• Volume 1 includes previously unreleased tracks from The Tridents, earthy mono recordings of Yardbirds classics like "Steeled Blues" and "Heart Full of Soul", and four tracks from a Yardbirds BBC session, and concludes with Jeff's first solo singles.

• Volume 2 covers the Jeff Beck Group albums and the later Beck, Bogert and Appice collaboration. Highlights here include the reworking of the Yardbirds' Shapes of Things with Rod Stewart on vocals, the driving "Plynth", the beautiful guitar work on Definitely Maybe and the interesting reworking of Stevie Wonder's Superstition.

• Volume 3 tracks through what the sleeve notes call the "instrumental era" of the 1970s with tracks from the jazzy Blow by Blow and the acclaimed George Martin produced Wired albums. There is a live performance of "Freeway Jam" with major collaborator Jan Hammer with whom Jeff was still touring in 2004, before arriving at the end of the 1980's with Guitar Shop tracks like Big Block and Where Were You.

A 60 page booklet comes with the album. Gene Santoro's biography is easy to read and comprehensive, and the collection of photographs is absorbing.