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Hell of a tenor sound...

You're not far off on the folk element geography. I was worried that maybe I was hearing things, so I'm glad that my hint made at least some sense to you. And you got William Parker on 9. Not Hamid Drake or Carter though...

Lao Dan was my banker, I'm sure I could hear Chinese folk elements having listened carefully as suggested... Now I could start listing shakuhachi players but I won't. With Shabaka and Andre 3000's flute playing it's had a bit of a revival I think. Unless you're being a bit sneaky and it's William Parker, the percussion could be Hamid in that case. The second flute player Daniel Carter And that's my last guess, I promise

Not Lao Dan. I've actually not heard him before but will be checking his music out. Yes, shakuhachi is on 9. Good call.

Ok, thanks for the response. The one I have is the 3cd Verve set.

Violin Sonatas No.7 and No.8

Is #3 Lao Dan? #9 is bugging me as I really like it. Is that a shakuhachi? Not that that's going to cut down the options much a there's so many masterful players of it.

Nice. Thank you. My CD player has likely gone kaput so I'll be pricing options in the near future and will check this out.

Yes, I am using a PS Audio transport and a PS Audio DAC and they have purchased the right to pass the transport spun raw DSD files from SACD via HDMI to the DAC. Can also play files from a stick (I don't do that).

Paull Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note)

Does this route play redbook, sacds, etc?

Congrats!

I didn't want what Allen said to be true since it was based on an excerpt, but I started reading my copy this weekend and it wasn't until chapter 3 that discussion on Kenny finally started. There's some great info otherwise on Texas, Jim Crow and racially driven murders in the region, and other "quality of life at the time" descriptions. But when one's time for leisurely reading isn't much, it kind of sucks wading through all of this data before we get to the topic at hand. So I agree, editing would have been nice. I had a history prof tell me once long ago that my report missed the forest for the trees. I got caught up in minutia and presenting data points but forgot to tell the actual story. Seems like that applies here too. Maybe it gets better going forward. I sure hope so.

I do a stair climber at the gym every day and there is a row of these in front of me. As things continue to deteriorate, the elliptical is next!

There’s big change in my household now–we adopted from a neighbor a sweet, mellow dachshund-corgi mix male dog who is getting used to us and our house. He’s sweet and loving and a happy dog. Getting our first listening session in . . . starting off with Bill Evans "Top of the Gate" disc 1

Jason Moran is among a growing number of musicians who have been targeted on music streaming platforms by what appear to be AI bots masquerading as the real artists. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/11/ai-impersonating-musicians-spotify

Seriously, I'm not sure publishers do serious editing any more. OTOH, doesn't pretty much any book contain a preface in which the author thanks family, sources, assistants, publisher/editor etc. and concludes with "...any remaining errors are the author's responsibility"?

I have a vibration pad to stand on which trains leg muscles without stressing joints in the knees or hip or back. It is reported to have the same effect as jogging on muscle training. No idea which brands may be available in the US.