Inner Worlds

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{{Infobox album

| name = Inner Worlds

| type = studio

| artist = Mahavishnu Orchestra

| cover = MahavishnuInnerWorlds.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1976|1}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jazz.com/music/2008/2/27/mahavishnu-orchestra-the-way-of-the-pilgrim |title=Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Way of the Pilgrim |author=Walter Kalosky |publisher=jazz.com |access-date=April 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214024329/http://www.jazz.com/music/2008/2/27/mahavishnu-orchestra-the-way-of-the-pilgrim |archive-date=December 14, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

| recorded = July–August 1975

| venue =

| studio = Château d'Hérouville, France

| genre = Jazz fusion

| length = 44:07

| label = Sony

| producer = John McLaughlin with Dennis MacKay

| prev_title = Visions of the Emerald Beyond

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Mahavishnu

| next_year = 1984

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = John McLaughlin

| type = studio

| prev_title = Visions of the Emerald Beyond

| prev_year = 1975

| title = Inner Worlds

| year = 1976

| next_title = Shakti with John McLaughlin

| next_year = 1976

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| noprose = yes

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r143041}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|access-date=March 2, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 135

}}

}}

Inner Worlds is an album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It was the group's sixth album release, as well as their last for nearly ten years.

In 1975, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and keyboardist Gayle Moran left the band. Stu Goldberg was brought in as a replacement for Moran. Although they were not officially recorded, initially this version of the group still retained Norma Jean Bell, Carol Shive, Phillip Hirschi, Russell Tubbs and Steve Kindler. After some hasty rehearsals, this line-up toured with Jeff Beck. After the tour, McLaughlin pared the band down to a quartet of himself, Goldberg, Walden and Armstrong, and then the album was recorded.{{Cite web |url=http://www.abstractlogix.com/interview_view.php?idno=70 |title=Goldberg interview |access-date=2014-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826121323/http://www.abstractlogix.com/interview_view.php?idno=70 |archive-date=2014-08-26 |url-status=dead }}

This would be the last album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra for nearly ten years, when leader and guitarist John McLaughlin formed an entirely different version of the group in 1984.