Some great sessions were recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen in the 1960s and 70s. Steeplechase has done a great job over the years of releasing a cross-section of some of the exceptional moments. This album, however, is a bit of a curate’s egg, not least because the piano isn’t exactly in tune, and sounds more like the kind of instrument beloved of Winifred Atwell or Russ Conway.

Great as it is to have an example of the great South African bassist Johnny Dyani sitting in, his playing here makes an already tough listen even tougher, as his virtuosic forays tangle unsympathetically with the ghastly piano. On his one number ‘Walkin’’, Gomez is more successful by laying down such a formidable walking bass that everyone is in thrall to it, even the drummer Jørn Elniff – who goes the long way round to prove that he is no Elvin Jones. Jaedig is a reasonable tenor player, but no great shakes. Once he is out of the way, Jordan’s playing loosens up and makes the best of things on his extended choruses on ‘Walkin’’ with Gomez clearly relaxing after playing in the same club with Bill Evans a couple of days earlier. If we had been attendees for other nights of the Jordan quartet’s residency, we’d have probably heard numbers like the version here of ‘The Man I Love’ where the group plays as a band and hints at what they might have achieved without stellar guests and allowing individual egos to be subsumed into the collective whole.