What a fuss everyone made over the cusp-septuagenarians The Rolling Stones playing Glastonbury in the summer! Seventy is nothing in jazz terms; two of this month’s smartest releases come courtesy of men who have now passed the 80 mark: Kenny Wheeler’s Six by Six and this, Saturday Morning, by Ahmad Jamal. The US pianist made his initial breakthrough back in the 1950s but is currently enjoying something of a professional Indian summer – last year’s Blue Moon was Grammy-nominated and this one’s hardly inferior. The 10 tunes here (the 11th track is a radio edit of the title number, which clocks in at just over 10 minutes on its earlier appearance on the album) were recorded near Avignon in France, hence the subtitle, La Buissonne Studio Sessions. One-time Weather Reporter Manolo Badrena adds a sumptuous latin percussive swing to proceedings throughout, while on the likes of ‘The Line’ Jamal tempers his much-discussed taste for swooning romanticism with steely guile and a deeply groovy irony. There’s a lovely tribute to Horace Silver (‘Silver’) and a mournfully lovely Ellington cover (‘I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good’ – with an added splash of ‘Take the ‘A’ Train’). There’s no suggestion of a waning of powers with age – quite the opposite, in fact.