Epinions Recent Reviews for bill_altreuter

Just A Good Man, Feeling Bad

Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:16:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - A riveting country blues collection. Just the title of the opening track should grab you: "It's A Bad Night To Be A Stray Dog". The song itself gave me chills. It is an acoustic country blues, featuring guitar, harp and mandolin, with Mr...

University at Buffalo Law School: Creative and Unconventional

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:57:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - First my biases: I am an alum, (Class of '82) and I am also presently adjunct faculty ("Discovery Strategy and Deposition Tactics", a two credit January bridge course). I am a civil litigation lawyer with offices in New York City and Buffalo,...

Kodak PalmPix Camera: Pocket Sized and Handy

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:25:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - The Palm Pix Camera combines the gee-wizz quality that all great gadgets must have with real utility. You don't need to have it, particularly if you already have a digital camera, but if you have a Palm IIIx you'll really want it.

The Palm...

Plain Vanilla Makes the Best Sundaes

Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:31:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Probably the most useful electronic gadget I've got, besides my laptop, and best of all, the two work together. I can be gadget-resistant, but our office had reached a point where scheduling complexity was starting to overtake us. The Palm IIIx solves...

I Won't Grow Up

Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:25:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Although I listen to a lot of different sorts of music, the music I still like to read about the most is rock'n'roll, and nobody writes about rock more intelligently, or more amusingly, than Robert Christgau. A collection of his longer reviews has been...

More than just "Greatest Hits", whatever that is supposed to mean

Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:07:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Like the man himself, the material on this recording still endures, and still tells us new things about the world and about ourselves. This was the first Dylan album I ever owned, and one of the first records I ever bought with my own money. I am not...

A Quality Brew

Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:30:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - I was living in the City of Homes and Churches when Brooklyn Lager was introduced. Back then, brews like this were rare-- Anchor Steam and Sam Adams were pretty much all that was available, and this had the advantage of being somewhat more local. (At...

I Hear America Talking

Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:32:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - If there ever was a time in your life when the most important part of your car was the radio, this cultural diary will appeal to you. For me the radio was the link to the world outside, and the Jonathan Richman song from which the book takes its title...

The Best Kept Secret in the Northeast

Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:02:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Buffalo gets a tough rap, but the truth is that it is an attractive destination, and a worthwhile stopping

point if you are on the way to somewhere else. I live here, but I don't have to, and every out of town

visitor I have ever had has...

Dreamlike, Intelligent Jazz

Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:51:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Bill Evans place in jazz would be secure on the basis of any number of recordings. This is

surely one of them. Evans' work on Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" is something of an

exception in my mind-- mostly I prefer...

Complicated, Soulful and Beautiful

Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:47:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Coltrane had a sound that was unlike anyone else's, and he had a concept for jazz which took it in a whole new direction. Sometimes this can sound pretty out there at first, but his music always rewards attention, and nowhere is this more true than on...

Great Getz

Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:00:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - There are a lot of good Stan Getz recordings out there. This the one you need to have. You probably know "The Girl From Ipanema", ("Tall and tan and lean and lovely...."). You may know "Desafinado" or some or all of...

Swinging and sexy

Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:55:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_altreuter - Cassandra Wilson sings songs associated with Miles Davis. This is a project which could have gone either way. My experience with Ms. Wilson's recordings has been spotty (and, of course, Miles was certainly capable of producing music which could be...