Thomas Binder

Denver-based cornetist Ron Miles took his beautiful Circuit Rider project with guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Brian Blade and expanded it in 2017 for I Am a Man, adding Jason Moran on piano and Thomas Morgan on bass. With Rainbow Sign, Miles’ first outing on Blue Note, he keeps that lineup intact for another inspired all-original set. The title comes from the famous couplet in “Mary Don’t You Weep”: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign/No more water, the fire next time.” All the turbulence and portent of 2020, along with hope and yearning for new beginnings, seems to speak through the music.

Various Artists - The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records (1995) {9CD Set, Rounder Records ‎CDAN25}
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© 1995 Rounder Records | ‎CD AN 25
Blues / Country / Jazz / Folk / Soul / Funk / Bluegrass

Within the discount, ugly-duckling packaging of The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records lie nine CD swans worth several hundred times their weight in superficial music-industry gold records. Since 1970, Massachusetts-based Rounder has been a stalwart sanctuary of various musics at the root of what has recently been labeled "Americana." The retrospective is segmented into four thematic two-disc sets, each offering a staggering 30 to 50 tracks where legendary names rub shoulders with bright young Rounder talent.