Rainbow Sign: CD music-product Byrd's passing in 2013

Byrd's passing in 2013

Extension was the last of 3 unique Blue Note sessions led by the singular saxophonist George Braith in the early 1960s

The band’s self-titled debut album is a superb nine-song set that features material composed and/or arranged by each of the band’s six instrumentalists

and Tony Williams on drums

and Kweku Sumbry on drums plus special guest appearances by flutist Elena Pinderhughes and the Farafina Kan Percussion Ensemble The album consists of an hour-long suite comprised of seven movements that strive to bring the quartet closer to complete vesselhood by the end

Rainbow Sign: CD music-product Byrd's passing in 2013Cornetist and composer Ron Miles makes his Blue Note debut with Rainbow Sign, the follow up to his widely acclaimed 2017 album I Am A Man, which reconvenes the same remarkable band featuring pianist Jason Moran, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Thomas Morgan, and drummer Brian Blade. Miles wrote most of Rainbow Sign as his father was passing away in the summer of 2018, and the album is both a loving dedication and a riveting spiritual document that