Six, not four, individuals are integral to this second recording by Esthesis Quartet. Joining flutist Elsa Nilsson, pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Emma Dayhuff, and drummer Tina Raymond is guitarist Bill Frisell, who appears throughout and thus functions as an unofficial fifth member.
In showing the group members on the cover, Esthesis Quartet’s identity as a four-person unit is re-affirmed, but it’s telling that Frisell’s name is listed with the others’ on the sleeve’s backside.
The sixth person critical to Sound & Fury is the late Ron Miles, who doesn’t physically appear but whose spirit permeates a major portion of the album material.
Miles was both a colleague of Frisell’s — hear the trumpeter’s playing on the guitarist’s…

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