Here's another of these rewarding SteepleChase concert recordings from Copenhagen's Falkoner Centret, with Cannonball, post Miles Davis, presenting his very lively group for its first-ever European tour, the British expatriate Victor Feldman coming in for the departed Bobby Timmons. And how well he acquits himself on both piano and vibes, these eight selections including four Feldman compositions. He's fleet on vibes on Randy Weston's ‘Hi Fly’, Jones’ bass lines like a trunk route through the harmonies, and is given full rein on piano on his own ‘Serenity’, the horns sitting out.

It's his zippy ‘Exodus’ which opens the concert, its proto-hard bop profile launching fevered improvisations from both the Adderleys. Cannonball's solo is almost encyclopaedic in the multiplicity of variations its offers and brother Nat fires on all cylinders, too.

Adderley's own ‘Sack of Woe’, with what booklet writer Neil Tesser calls its ‘country soul persona’ works as well as ever, Jones unflagging in his four-minute solo but Feldman's ‘Lisa’ is the standout track here, its vivacity inspiring both Adderley's creative energies, Jones and Hayes kicking hard behind Feldman's solo. Add in ‘This Here’ and ‘Our Delight’ and this combination of the familiar and the freshly made, all zestfully played, should satisfy listeners, old and new. Great to have been there, and good to have now. By summer 1961, Feldman was gone, back home in California, to be replaced by another European incomer, Joe Zawinul. That, as they say, is another story.