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Nor do I understand why he says Antwerp was not available before. It's been available a long time as a boot. Ah well. This is one of the very best reissues of the century.

V, Season 2. Frustratingly mediocre show. Incredible picture on Blu-Ray!

Wow. I really like what you don't. But I've loved Miles' music since '71 or so and have real nostalgia about the fifties through seventies recordings. In fact I like them most when variable and experimental. Different strokes I guess.

Yes, I received mine Monday. Have listened to three discs. Worth the wait.

Sorry, posted that in the wrong thread.

I'll agree, the music is not static and different shows have peaks in different tunes. I really love all these shows and don't really have a favorite. I think that the sound being so darned good here has allowed me to connect to these shows again and more firmly than when I listened to the real boots.

Raising Hope. "ARR Matey." Funny stuff.

He was also awesome in "Band of Brothers."

I'll check that out on disc, wish it were on a network I get. Damien Lewis is a very good actor.

Many many happy returns!

That's a great deal. The very well done Blu-Ray is only 4 dollars more.

I know that's likely. For me jazz is still the best medicine. I lived with Prog when it was new and cutting edge, which is different than how I hear it now, and how I hear recreations of then Prog such as this Wilson. Heavy doses of Prog now makes me feel alternately old and "squirmy." Different strokes!

I find that there is a slow deterioration of sound over time. It varies from type to type and brand to brand but in most of those that I use the bass starts to diminish and the higher frequencies don't sparkle as much. Power tubes age faster than other types. Usually I get a few years out of power tubes in my amps.

Oh I'll follow him on the path. I'm just less excited by what I see as a resurrection of 'seventies sounds and forms. I really did enjoy prog in the 'seventies, when I was younger and unhappier, but it just fizzled out for me, and this one doesn't have a lot of bubbles. I'm looking forward to the next, I have a feeling it will be different.

I didn't even get a glimmer of that point amongst all your attacks on the posts. This thread, as clh points out, was not started about his music, but about his statement. I don't see any discussion here that is not included in that topic. Don't read, don't participate, if you don't want to discuss his statements or read about reactions to them.

Do these postures translate to his fingers? If you still think so, I suggest you check this out -- recorded live at the Blue Note, NYC in May 2010: http://www.amazon.com/Further-Explorations-Chick-Corea/dp/B004VN7V18/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1321019341&sr=1-1 Again, the music is what matters. Discussion of all else is a waste of bandwidth in cyberspace. Chick is a great musician, check my posts, but and he does have freedom to believe anything he wants. But is scientology a religion? More of a cult, according to what I read. You seem to be missing the point of my post. Are you saying that if it's a cult, and not a religion, that he doesn't have the freedom to follow it as he wishes? Does he seem the worse for wear? Does he need saving from the cult, as an impressionable child might? Is this really so different than any other of your jazz heroes deciding mid-life to become muslim? And even if it is, who really cares? Anyone here is free to NOT buy his new music. To just drone on and on about some insignificant facet of his life is just plain ignorant and WRONG! ATR was hardly droning on about it and merely posited that Scientology may not be a religion. In fact, several nations still don't recognize that Scientology is a religion and the US government is forever trying to define it as a methodology, not a religion, and get some tax monies. I spent several years living in a rented house with Scientologists, and several additional years involved musically with a guitarist and song-writer who was a Scientologist, and from that viewpoint I don't really see Dianetics and Scientology as a religion but at its best as an alternative to psychiatry. For many of its adherents it starts out as a sort of self-improvement therapy series and then can become something else with further involvement. Its biggest enemy (in its own estimation) is the psychiatric community and accepted psychology; Scientologists believe they have the new/old truth in this field and should have the place of privilege and rank. They've gone another route instead. I DO think that Scientology informs Corea's work, but agree with John that it's hardly different than the way that other belief systems or methodologies (or lack of same) have influenced the work of other jazz artists. The fact that I called it a religion was NOT the point of my post. I could have just as easily called it 'shit', and it still would not matter. I know that ATR produces jazz records. That does NOT make him more informed about anything other than producing jazz records than you or I. Well what is your point then? It seems to have been missed in all the sort of negative remarks you reel out about posters day after day. That Corea has made some great music? Not many here are refuting that. That "nothing else matters but the music?" That would cause the forum to have about 1 percent the activity it does.

Well, I like this album, but I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to carve the new ground that Insurgentes did (in my estimation) and instead treads water in Progland, water well tread before, and includes a bit of smoothed out Weather Report in spots. Absolutely well recorded and mixed, sounds fantastic in Blu-Ray. I just don't feel passionate about this one the way I do its predecessor. Ah well. Hopefully the next one will knock my socks off.

Chick is a great musician, check my posts, but and he does have freedom to believe anything he wants. But is scientology a religion? More of a cult, according to what I read. You seem to be missing the point of my post. Are you saying that if it's a cult, and not a religion, that he doesn't have the freedom to follow it as he wishes? Does he seem the worse for wear? Does he need saving from the cult, as an impressionable child might? Is this really so different than any other of your jazz heroes deciding mid-life to become muslim? And even if it is, who really cares? Anyone here is free to NOT buy his new music. To just drone on and on about some insignificant facet of his life is just plain ignorant and WRONG! ATR was hardly droning on about it and merely posited that Scientology may not be a religion. In fact, several nations still don't recognize that Scientology is a religion and the US government is forever trying to define it as a methodology, not a religion, and get some tax monies. I spent several years living in a rented house with Scientologists, and several additional years involved musically with a guitarist and song-writer who was a Scientologist, and from that viewpoint I don't really see Dianetics and Scientology as a religion but at its best as an alternative to psychiatry. For many of its adherents it starts out as a sort of self-improvement therapy series and then can become something else with further involvement. Its biggest enemy (in its own estimation) is the psychiatric community and accepted psychology; Scientologists believe they have the new/old truth in this field and should have the place of privilege and rank. They've gone another route instead. I DO think that Scientology informs Corea's work, but agree with John that it's hardly different than the way that other belief systems or methodologies (or lack of same) have influenced the work of other jazz artists.

Many many happy happy returns Rolf.

I believe Colin is referring to the Jazz Loft "warning" here, which is a very small part of this long thread.

Wow, it's hard to believe that I am holding this in my hands. I never thought it would see publication.

Great news. A successful venture!

Look on this page: http://www.popmarket.com/features/25809191

Yes, but the new masterings on these sets I've heard (Shaw and Gordon) sound really good, better than any earlier cd edtions, in my opinion, so I'd be interested to hear them. And I don't believe Between Nothingness and Eternity, my favorite of the MO recordings, was remastered at that time.