What’s in a name, anyway? My CD lists him as Kohsuke Mine, but Apple Music lists him as Kousuke Mine. Oh, and Wikipedia lists him as Kosuke Mine, dropping the first “u” and complicating things even further. Maybe it doesn’t matter (maybe absolutely nothing matters, as I sit here typing this at 5am the morning after the presidential election, numb and devastated – you do you, though), because in the end it’s the music that matters, and I was surprised over the last few days that Sunshower, the saxophonist’s 1976 funk-driven fusion went from a light diversion to a quick favorite.

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