My favourite period Ron Miles is with Ginger Baker on Coward of the County put out by Atlantic in 1999. Still Dreaming was a beaut too more recently, drummer Brian Blade on that latter record is also here on Rainbow Sign. Cornetist and composer Miles remains someone who makes brain waves and the heart sing.

The latest record soars and is replete with Miles' elegant, poetic, compositions, tunes that make sense delivered with precision by his all-star I Am a Man band. Few do the fragility that can peel away from a sound that otherwise speaks strength writ large better than Miles. On Blue Note