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Oh yeah, Bill Evans. Been years since I've listened to either one -- but I remember the Bill Evans disc being stronger than the Ellington/Monk disc.

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For what it is, thumbs-up (as I recall). I have both of the Kronos Quartet "jazz" discs (can't remember what composer the other one is the focus of), but as interesting string quartet albums, I remember finding them pretty good. Better than most at this sort of hybrid. Now whether this kind of thing "works" in the first place, is probably open to debate. I really like string quartets, so these were an interesting concept that turned out pretty good, to my ears. I've never gotten into the Turtle Island String Quartet, however (different group, I know). They've always left me a bit flat.

My wife and I only buy "100% juice" bottles of cranberry-grape juice and such. Unless it says "100% juice" -- it's probably got twice as many calories from the TON of fructose added. It costs a bit more for the "all-juice" kinds, but we've always felt it was well worth it. (We use a ton of coupons too, so that takes the sting off the price.) Tastes better too.

If you're into unique and one-of-a-kind museums, I've got one in NYC for you (sorta). It's not a museum, exactly, but it might as well be one... My wife and I were in NY about 5 or 6 years ago, and stumbled on an antique watch store, I think it was on Madison Ave, not more than 10 or maybe 15 blocks from the Guggenheim (don't remember which direction, though). I'm sure I could find the name of it, and the exact address -- if you had any interest. There's a vintage jewelry store here in Kansas City, and they usually have only about 20 to 30 really good vintage watches (wrist watches, we're talking here), at any one time. This store on Madison Ave. had something like 400+ vintage wrist-watches on display and for sale. Their prices were way over the top, and nothing I could ever afford, but it was fascinating just looking at all of them. Turns out that the owner of the store is the author of what I understand is THE definitive book on antique wrist-watches, which I later saw a copy of here in Kansas City. Of course, this sort of thing might not be of any interest to you. But the variety of wrist-watches from the entire 20th Century was staggering to see. Many, many striking models, especially those from the 30's and 40's. Here's a random sampling from the first site I found with Google.

Link: AMG Page for Organissimo Are you guys really World Music??

Link: Pimpin' somebody's eBay The FARK headline was: Frustrated Mets fan offers crappy outfielder Roger Cedeno for sale, fails to throw in crappy reliever John Franco and crappy starting pitcher Tom Glavine

Full title wouldn't fit on the sub-title of this thread... AMG Review: Tributo a the Cure: Porque No Puedo Ser Tu Got outbid on this one on eBay a couple weeks ago, and I've been searching for it ever since. Can anyone find me one on-line?? -- or (and boy, this is really a shot in the dark), anybody here have one to offer?? 1999 - CD - WEA International - 28265

Try http://www.powells.com. They have both new and used, and free shipping after you buy enough titles (or spend enough -- however it works). Worth a try.

Any word, Brandon, if the sound-samples are a feature that's coming soon to the "public" version of AMG??? I think that would be a HUGE plus, especially for being able to sample OOP material.

A few OOP BN titles, and OOP Mosaics too -- with audio-samples (of every track, in the case of the Sam Rivers)... I know, many of us already have these things in our collections. My point is that not everyone does, and these are all representive of the kinds of things that might have audio-samples in the AMG (at least in the future, since this backdoor thing might not last) ----> especially for those of us looking for OOP stuff on-line, on eBay, and half.com, and such. In the last hour, I've heard samples of half-a-dozen OOP titles I would have never bought without hearing first, but now I'm sure gonna keep my eyes out for them.

Audio-samples HERE Edit: Connie's right -- from the samples, this sounds like a great disc!!!

How true, how true.

Audio-samples of every track from this set can be found: HERE (See my other thread for any discussion about the back-door way into the AMG, with sound-samples.)

Not sure. The file extension appears to be ".asx". Plays on my Windows Medio Player just fine. On a side note -- there are audio-samples of EVERY track of the Mosaic Selects. Not just the three tracks they give you on the Mosaic site, but every track!!! B) B) B) Also, sound samples of every track on some of the regular Mosaics. The Elvin Jones set does have sound-samples for every track, the Stanley Turrentine doesn't. (Haven't checked any others yet.)

Yeah, that would suck.

I've gotta get some work done today, but I just noticed one other thing... They've got the sound-sample buttons on the page with every version of particular song that the AMG knows about. Type in "Giant Steps", click the "song" radio-button (instead of the default "artist"), and you get 243 separate entries for "Giant Steps". Probably 100 or more of them aren't versions recorded by Coltrane, and maybe half of those (maybe more???) have sound-samples ---> and the audio-sample button is right there in the page with the listing of the 243 versions. Man, even with the AMG's warts and all (incorrect data, incomplete data, etc...), this is still some mighty powerful stuff. B)

Steeplechase titles appear to all have audio-samples. What other relatively-obscure labels can we find??? EDIT: I just found a DIW title with samples.

Make that the "Charley" Strata East releases. None of the earlier German-only Strata titles have audio (Billy Harper's Capra Black came to mind). BUT, they did have samples for this - which I would have never expected... The label is "EPM Musique" and/or "Marge" --- and I would have never guessed they'd have had audio-samples for this one.

Man, this is THE quickest way I've ever seen to actually HEAR sampes of albums with your favorite sidemen on it. I just listened to samples of three albums with Charles Tolliver on them (but where he wasn't the leader), that I've never heard before. I was NEVER gonna take the time to search through on-line music-store after music-store for some of those titles, looking for audio-samples. It appears that most of the "Strata East" discs that have been released on CD all have audio-samples on the AMG.

I've ALWAYS wondered what Bobby Timmon's album "The Soul Man!" sounded like (since it's got Wayne Shorter on it, from about 1966, and the original version of Shorter's "Tom Thumb"). Now I know. B) Man, I gotta get me a copy of this one sometime!!!!

To my surprise, they even have audio-samples for a FRESH-SOUND title like Jack Wilson's Ramblin'. (Nothing from Wilson's "Eastern Winds" - which is really what I was looking for by going to the Jack Wilson bio.) Man, this will be a LOT easier than trying to hunt down audio-samples from dozens of sites like Amazon, Tower, BN, or even things like the Fresh Sounds site (does their site even have samples??) This will make purchasing on eBay MUCH simpler, if you can quickly find audio-samples of what you're wanting to bid on (for OOP CD's)