Among the 10 originals that make up this album, one stands out as representing the kind of work at which Lynne Arriale excels in live performance. This is the title track, which unfolds its motific melody continually over its three minute playing time, drawing us into her world of delicate sensibility. She has a marvellous keyboard touch, and while this track exemplifies her gentlest playing, it contrasts with the more assertive ‘Sisters’ that follows, and her powerful tribute to the late US Supreme Court female justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Contemporary politics and the pandemic have inspired several compositions here, notably the soul-searching ‘Into The Breach’ which reflects on the Capitol insurrection of 6 January 2021, while the title track pays tribute to those doctors and nurses who worked on in US hopsitals, despite the overwhelming influx of Covid-19 patients. Another facet of Arriale’s live performances is her ability to create and linger on beautiful melodies, and the closing ‘Heroes’ is just such a piece, its elegiac melody unfolding into piano figures that develop with grace and power as her improvisation progresses. To create reflective beauty and occasional moments of introspection in a consistently melodic and powerfully emotional way is a rare gift and this record catches her talent to perfection.