Rescue and Recovery

Ron Miles knew the art of feeling, which lives on in his music.

Sunlight was pouring through the living room windows the first time I put on my vinyl copy of Rainbow Sign. I remember this moment as a Sunday morning, sometime in the first several weeks of 2021. I remember where I was sitting — in an armchair across the room from the stereo, in our beloved old house in Beacon, New York. On the sofa, my wife sat leafin…