Jerry-

Thanks so much for those 2 CD's of African music. It's really interesting how everybody has different tastes. I seem to gravitate to the African unaccompanied vocal music--it's fascinating how the the voices intertwine and the changing harmonies--as well as the rhythms-- seem to be uniquely African.   Your selections are just great.

In general I seem to like unacompanied--or sparsely accompanied-- multipart vocal music--including Tudor anthems by Byrd and Tallis, doo-wop, Sephardic, Sacred Harp, Watersons, the Bulgarian womens' groups, and gospel, black and white.

Whereas instrumental non-classical music does very little for me--maybe since I'm definitely not an instrumentalist, in general. I wonder if really good instrumentalists who usually don't sing would have the opposite perspective.

Of course you do both--so your appreciation of music is correspondingly broad. And the broader taste is, the more pleasure music brings. It's a real gift.