As we all know, the universe is continually expanding. Almost matching its rate of growth are the number of anonymous, colourfully titled independent record labels who've latterly begun to take over the jazz reissue business, labels like the producer of this album, Bird's Nest. Given the millennial fixation for all things vinyl they've moved on from the CD market to that of the LP, creating Public Domain reissues of Public Domain reissues of Public Domain reissues, the net result being like a Russian Doll that undoes itself to reveal ever more pointlessness.

Don't get me wrong, Jazz at Massey Hall is a classic in every way – the moment when five of modern jazz's iconic voices came together on stage in less than perfect circumstances to create one of the all-time great performances within the idiom – but please, can someone tell me why on earth would a label feel the need to issue it again, all plastic-feel, sanitised and reeking of opportunism?

It pains me to report that far from handling this music with any respect Bird's Nest have seen fit to print a photo of the gig back to front and are happy to state that the ‘original liner notes' were written by someone from Rolling Stone magazine, a publication that didn't launch until a good dozen or so years after this music was first issued.

It's like watching history being rewritten and, worse still, rewritten on the cheap.

Beautiful, life-changing music like this deserves more than being crassly packaged and treated as if it were some disposable everyday commodity.

Five stars for the music. But Bird's Nest, honestly? More like Dog's Breakfast.