Cliff Englewood

The “Artists” thread is starting to look like a morgue/cemetery, pretty soon there'll be more posts about the dead than the living.

Chuck, how did you resist the urge to go, "Sony Rollins mentions"????? Could it be you're losing your touch?????????

I give a hearty "AMEN" to the later half of this sentence. The thing I think is most reveling about the Keepnews notes in this series and others before the series is that he seems to have had more dumb luck than a Lottery winner throughout his career. In the notes for “Really Big” he claims he didn’t even know most of the musicians that ended up on the album were going to be at the session and then kinda takes credit for making the thing happen at the same time. I’m not against the guy being proud of being involved in some great music during Jazz’s so called classic years, but come on, a lot of it, if not most of it, would have happened without him anyway. For example there is no way Monk would have continued to be ignored for the whole of his career, when so many musicians rated him so highly during the 50's, and he only really "made it" when he went to Columbia.

DMP, if you really are buying some of these purely for the liners, you need to put down the Crack Pipe, or at least take a break for a while. Also, in the notes to "Really Big" he goes on for ages about how HE came up with the title, like it was the be all and end all of the whole project, and how it was borrowed from Ed Sullivan, who apparently was really popular at one time, I'm under 40 and I live in Ireland and even I knew that. It's still a neck and neck race between him and good old Ira for most pointless liner notes...........EVER. :rolleyes:

It's a serial mouse, and unless the pins are bent or broken, it's kinda difficult to do any problem determination, but at the top of Device Manager will be your PCs name, unplug the mouse, right click the PCs name and select scan for hardware changes, let it do it's thing, plug the mouse back in and right click and select scan for hardware changes, it should pick it up that way or else you may have a more serious problem with the PC.

Is it a usb or serial mouse?

If your're using XP, check your hardware listed in Device Manager, you should see a pointing device listed, also try reinstalling the drivers for the device itself.

I didn't know that this material was so easily available, as I don't use those file sharing type things, not out of any moral indignation or anything, just don't use them. Indestructible!, I will send you a PM.

Thanks for the reply jlhoots, what is the sound quality like? are we talking decent radio broadcast/mono kinda thing? Tracks 1 Cherokee, Noble 18:58 2 Just Friends, Klenner, Lewis 19:39 3 The Scene Is Clean, Dameron 1:17 4 Big Foot, Parker 27:44 5 Come Rain or Come Shine, Arlen, Mercer 11:57

Did anyone get the Lonehill version of this release?? Is it worth getting for 15 Euros??

I love the "Fearless Leader" set but I'm not too sure i'll go for this one. Unless of course Ljazz is having another sale.

And it looks very much like this; and I just borrowed it from the library yesterday.

I've always felt that all the solos on this one are particularly and extremely BLUE.

No posts in the "Count Basie Zone" since March 2004. I should talk, after pretty much ignoring his music for years; I have become a real convert to both the Old and New Testaments. I really love this photo of the man himself; if anyone has a better quality version of it, please post it. I found this kinda interesting page on the one and only Freddie Green. Freddie Green. I am constantly amazed by the way he makes himself heard in both the Old and New Testament bands, (without an amplifier???). It really does add to the overall sound of the band and I can't believe he got lucky with ALL the sound engineers that recorded the various groups, it had to be his own work.

I was listening to discs 3, 4, 5 and 6 last night and really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really enjoyed it.

"Keepin' It Greazy." Keepin' what Greazy??? Is it your Ibanez??? Please tell me it's your Ibanez.

"Slather it on. Works as a lubricant as well." Works as a lubricant for what?

Yea, nice one, I have to say I was just blown away by the finish, it just looked so good, too good in fact to have come from China. I know that's not the most important thing, and the action and fittings seem to be of very high quality too, just looked/felt better than the Korean Epiphone's which are around the same price. And now for some guitar porn...... They also do a "spalted maple" version, although there is no mention of it on the offical site.....

Does anyone here play an Ibanez? I have seen one of their ES-335 type guitars and was quite impressed with it? Any opinions? Thanks in advance.

Yes, "Blues of a Sort" is included on the Definitive Records release, and why wouldn't it be, I mean they are called "Definitive" Records.

The madness starts again today, it's Sunderland 0-0 Tottenham at half time.

So people must have this by now, what's the general consensus, I though there would be a bit more of a response to this release.

Everyone's a critic.

All 4 discs of this one are getting a spin this evening; Sound quality is better than I remember too.

JPF, I should have added this to my original review, from the liner notes; "Note: occasional instances of drop-out or phasing are in the original mono recording and cannot be corrected." Although it doesn't say who actually recorded it originally, I have to say that whoever did do it, they did a good job, as they are very occasional instances of drop-out or phasing.