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Yeah, but there's a difference between "not paying attention" to and flat out ignoring, which is what I get the impression Corea did. It would be like if Scott Walker overheard somebody playing a Sinatra album in 2005 and came over and in all seriousness asked what that was. I flat out ignored the Beatles as well, so it's not beyond the pale in my estimation. Granted I wasn't "in the industry" or trying to "communicate" in the market, but I had a plan for musical study and appreciation and the Beatles weren't on the map. I had one friend who ignored the Beatles because he was trying to be the next Jimi Hendrix without seeming to be trying to be the next Jimi Hendrix, an obsession in his life. And another who ignnored the Beatles because Mick Jagger and Jimi Morrison were GODS. I just can see it happen.

I first heard Papa Blue with Wild Bill Davison, and then followed through with some of his own releases. Some great music.

Well, it doesn't seem that odd to me because I really didn't pay attention to the Beatles for a few decades. Once they stopped releasing albums I just didn't listen to them. I listened to Chicago blues, fusion, hard rock and funk, and began my jazz addiction. I really thought that the Beatles were for kids, I listened to them when I was kid, I never really saw what a big deal they were. And I still don't hold them in incredible esteem. I also know a few musicians who are deeply into THEIR music, to the exclusion of almost any other soundwaves that encounter their ears for long periods of time, years and years. Corea may have had a similar dedicated focus on his musical production. Just saying. Not paying attention to the Beatles is something that I can relate to. It's not such a big deal to me if Corea didn't.

I THINK it's quite possible that Chick didn't think he WAS in the same arena. That there was a different audience and market for his work, and he probably also believed that he had the right mojo and just needed to apply it. He came out of a cauldron of souljazz and avant-garde jazz and whatever you want to call what Miles was doing and he thought: I've got it, I've got the goods, the magic, and I just need to do my thing with gravitas.

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R.I.P. Papa Blue! Thanks for the great music!

Absolutely.

Actually I was answering Romualdo's query about whether any tracks from sessions were eliminated because Miles doesn't solo, etc.

ARGH! I already have all this material. . . and will probably buy the Mosaic to have it all together and in better sound. Great stuff.

I own a lot of instruments because I'm fascinated with sound, and the construction of instruments and the materials they're made from. I've never had any music lessons and I don't play anything "right." I can be best at drums, and I was part of three different groups the second half of the eighties and performed some gigs and though I found "being in a band" a real trial, I learned a lot and had some fun. (And quite a bit of non-fun as well). Before drums though I played around on piano, and I can play a few things, I'm best at what I've created myself, which are a few unexceptional compositions. I love guitars and basses but I'm awful and am content at being awful. I love the creation of sound and texture on stringed instruments, both acoustic and electric. I play when I'm alone, the confidence and faith in what I play on drums has never been achieved on other instruments, although I did play the piano a bit with my late wife present and am beginning to play some guitar when my girlfriend is about, quite a metamorphosis for me. But I enjoy myself overall and playing music is sort of a meditative exercise for me. Dan, I'm very happy you've returned to playing.

Shawn is down-playing his skills considerably. He's better than he's leading you to believe. He knows how to get a great sound as well.

My version is the ten disc one. As far as I know they don't eliminate any tracks. These are direct rips of other bootlegs, with possibly additional NR and EQ. You get what you pay for.

I've one of their Miles boxes. It's a collection of other bootleg recordings, seems they chose the best versions to copy. They're all within the copyright law in Europe, so "legit" to sell there.

Ah, the myth of the great artist.

Our member Mr. Thornton tried that and didn't receive a set.

Yes, but that wasn't the case when that was a new receiver.

I have one of those that was my Dad's for about twenty years. Nice receiver during that time.

Was having symptoms of withdrawl so stuck one of the Season One dics of LOST in the player.

I'm certain that London and Verona are circulating, and I think also Pescara. The others, don't know!

Oh the humanity!

I keep thinking about July '73 as the next likely. The Montreux show is now out on DVD, so that's an easy prep (that's part of why we had '67 last time perhaps, the DVD had been prepared for the Complete Albums box set?), It's long enough to barely be a disc of its own if there's no other video suitable. If there are some professionally recorded concerts from this tour to fill tow or three cds, that would make a really nice package. Known appearances on that tour: July 6: Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck July 8: Montreux Jazz Festival July 10: Rainbow Theatre, London July 11: Olympia Theatre, Paris July 16: Parco delle Naiadi, Pescara July 17: Teatro Romano, Verona July 20: La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins

An entertainer needs to consider his/her audience. Some artists are entertainers, many of them. Chick likes to play and be paid. He never shows up in this town but at the most expensive venue. He had a pretty successful tour with the Return to Forever reunion, etc. and I bet these fattened his bank accounts. I'm certain he has the box office in mind when he plans his set list and even writes a new tune for with this sort of mindset. He hasn't been creating "albums" in some time, and even so, I bet he has the wants and expectations of what he conceives of as his audience in mind there too. ("Hey, maybe I can sell a Bud Powell tribute?") Nothing really wrong with that. Is there? I don't think jazz is dead. I do think that jazz "as serious as your life" is as rare as it ever was. I think at this stage in his life and career Chick needs the audience and the focus it brings him to add "human value" to his work. Otherwise he is playing in his own vacuum, for himself, and he doesn't feel that is "human" enough perhaps.

I agree with Chuck. I trust Scott and Mosaic to achieve the balance between musicality and noise reduction.

I bought a new front end for my stereo system, the PS Audio PerfectWave Transport and PerfectWave DAC. Everything sounds better to me, I can run all my sources through the DAC and use it as a remote-controlled preamp, and the Transport with its IS2 link to the DAC makes Redbook cd sound better to me than SACD out of my SACD players. The PS Audio duo has me very happy. So, I'm not listening to SACD and not missing it and just decided to not have them taking up shelf space. I've been thinning the herd of equipment I have. Just packed up one of my SACD players to a seller. Sold a cd output cd player and a DAC a few weeks ago. Shipped off a tubed integrated yesterday. Have a Peachtree Audio Decco with speakers, a tubed preamp and a pair of tubed single-ended monoblock amps going up for sale soon. And probably a half a dozen guitars. I don't have the space for all these. I thought I might be moving into a bigger house, have a room for instruments and room for a few more stereo systems, but that is on hold, so I'm going to streamline. Still leaves me with two systems that produce better sound than I ever thought I'd have in my home, and I'm just enjoying spinning music and watching video. SACD is pretty good, but I've never thought it was the ne plus ultra of digital, and I find I'm very happy with Redbook done properly.

Well, yes, but I don't believe in high pricing and I sold most of them for a bit less than I paid for them originally. Good deal for both buyer and seller.