These 27 club tracks – and the three studio singles that preceded them – were the Argo label’s immediate response to the huge success of Jamal’s But Not For Me, the album that begat the live ‘Poinciana’. Originally on an LP and a double-LP set, they’ve been augmented by two further tracks from the same date (first discovered on the Mosaic box covering this period), and they provide ample coverage of what made the trio both popular and influential on other musicians, such as Miles and even Oscar Peterson. And it is the trio aspect, the reliance on colouration from the bass and drums, that had the biggest impact long-term. Jamal’s own playing was a modernistic revision of Erroll Garner (check out 1955’s Concert By The Sea) with the block-chords and the single-note lines strongly reminiscent. What’s annoying in retrospect is how his heightened theatrics – extremes of texture and volume – are used to impress the audience, but musically he doesn’t put a foot wrong.