You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to chat with

journalist Mark Benelli. His recent piece for the New York Times magazine

details the rising prominence of these hologram tours featuring performances

by deceased musicians.

But first, we've got some answers to your questions.

Yeah, Greg, you know, we often get questions from listeners and friends

about a variety of topics topics ranging from our personal musical

taste to our experience as critics to how the hell could you be so wrong so often

you name it we get these questions and and we don't often get a chance to answer

We not we rarely answer them on the show. So Greg we're going to hear from some of our listeners who got to read their questions and the others are going to be fielded by our producers. But let's start with a listener.

Hi, my name is Steve.

I'm calling from Logan Square.

And my question is, what do Jim and Greg

listen to when they're quote, unquote, off duty and in what formats? Well that is a good

question because we do listen to so much music that is work related. It's funny

that a hobby turns into work, right? And vice versa. And joyful work, I must add. But it's always nice for me to be able to, when I have nothing work related to listen to at that moment or want to just play some music for a you know we have friends over or whatever I'll go to my jazz collection

I especially love thelonious Monk's Blue Note sessions as sort of a closing

epitaph for the day you know when I'm ready to wind down I put on some

thelonious monkey just makes me happy. And I just think he's such an idiosyncratic, wonderful artist and I would say the same

about Ornet Coleman. So those are my kind of two go-tus when I want to listen to

something just for the pure joy of it. See I've made this joke before I just

figure when I grow up and retire then I will begin to dig deeper into J beyond my Coltrane box set and the occasional

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