For The Second Time RBDVD14 encapsulated both in the album’s

encapsulated both in the album’s narrative arc and its striking artwork

Grim days call for fierce love

looking upon her closest kinships and friendships with a keen understanding of their steadying

originally released on the Riverside label

and more grit than ever before

For The Second Time RBDVD14 encapsulated both in the album’sAnyone who ever heard Count Basie launch his band into a blues with several choruses of effortless piano has lamented that there is far too little of Basie the soloist among his recorded legacy. This shortage was rectified to a certain extent by the trio albums Basie made with Ray Brown and Louis Bellson in the Seventies, of which this is the sequel to the For the First Time set of the previous year. Once again, Basie's poetic introductions, precise