As I’ve made clear in certain previous scribing, my preference is, was and always will be music that is traditional or very nearly so. It appears, however, that my definition of “very nearly so” has become more open-minded, given that some of what I’m covering here strays further from tradition than what my formerly more highfaluting stance would have embraced. Call it an altered state of mind coinciding with the altered state(s) of reality in the world today, perhaps the…