There’s been a real flurry of late-period Adderley Quintet ‘live’ discoveries recently; this Montreal club recording follows hard on our recent reviews of the quintet’s earlier concerts in Paris and Bordeaux. Here we’re nearly three years on from the Paris date and it’s the last-but-one night of the band’s six-night engagement at Montreal’s Concert Room: two months before Cannonball’s debilitating stroke and his subsequent death on 8 August that same year.

The 22-year-old Wolff, lately arrived as the replacement for Hal Galper, is given his say on Ron Carter’s ‘First Trip’, his solo a compendium of possibilities, after the quintet’s opening and frenzied ‘Five of A Kind’, taken at ‘breakneck speed’ and incorporating a crowd-pleasing and lengthy solo from McCurdy. The usually irresistible ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy’ follows, Wolff’s keyboard and Cannonball’s soprano off-mike, with McCurdy overly intrusive to my taste.

Cannonball introduces Wolff’s Eastern-sounding ‘Waban’, at some length, his comments arguably more engaging than the music. Booker is heard first, solo, playing arco, Wolff and Booker then giving their ethereal take on this mildly exotic piece, the horns and drums not required. Cannonball offers some ‘whimsically hip sermonising’, as he introduces ‘Country Preacher’ riffing genially on all that such a person might consider sinful, the playing quite short and not especially fruitful.

Enjoyable enough, but a far from crucial purchase, given the paucity of playing from the horns and the quality of the Elemental albums already cited.