Count Basie & The Kansas City 3 - For The Second Time

 

180-gram vinyl

Released in stereo for the first time!

Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab

Mixed live for stereo from a 4-track unmixed master original tape!

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Housed in a Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket

"This record sounds great, musically and sonically, and is also very accessible. Highly recommended." — Chad Kassem, Acoustic Sounds founder and CEO

Anyone 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 calibrations of touch and coloration, and definitive swing create a joyous program of four venerable standards and an equal number of new blues. Bellson is empathetic throughout and dances with his brushes on "Sandman," while Brown's robust tone and earth-moving walking lines bring out the best in Basie the soloist and accompanist.

When the original master tape arrived at The Mastering Lab in Salina, Kansas for disc cutting, engineer Matthew Lutthans discovered the tape was in mono. The record had only been released in mono, but after a bit of "crate digging" of the master tape kind, a 4-track unmixed master was located and sent to Salina, where Lutthans "live mixed" the three tracks and cut the lacquers.

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings for optimal sound quality, this Analogue Productions 180-gram reissue is a reissue jazz fans and audiophiles alike will treasure. Housed in a single pocket Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.

 

 

1. Side A 1. Sandman

2. 2. If I could Be With You One Hour Tonight

3. 3. Draw

4. 4. On The Sunny Side of the Street

5. Side B 1. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

6. 2. Blues for Eric

7. 3. I Surrender, Dear

8. 4. Racehorse

Customer Reviews (5.00 Stars) 2 person(s) rated this product.

All I can Say is Wow! posted on 11/18/2024 5 Stars Reviewer: Jack Graham This release is one of the best in this Pablo series. Mr. Lutthans has done a superb job…in the BG-Gray- Smith mode. This will be in my top 10 of 2024…enough from me…just buy this one…you will not be sorry!, Thanks Chad for another msterpiece!

First STEREO Release, and it's great posted on 11/09/2024 5 Stars This record was originally released in mono. Mastering Engineer Matt Lutthans went back to the first-generation 4-track tape, mixed it live to stereo and cut his lacquers. The result is a dynamic and super-quiet sound that makes it seem like Basie, Brown and Bellson are RIGHT THERE in the room! Awesome.

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