This is in many ways a wonderful re-release of the Enja album that first appeared in 1990 by a band that was actually called the United Nation Orchestra, made more wonderful by the companion DVD in the box of the BBC Television broadcast of the same concert with a couple of extra pieces of music included. The band was on incredible form, every musician turning in great ensemble playing and fine solos, with Diz still able to hold his own, but bowing out gracefully before Arturo Sandoval’s final show-stopping cadenza on the E-flat Bach trumpet (a smaller, higher instrument than the normal B-flat horn). So that is good news. But the misspelling of the band’s name is just one of a catalogue of minor issues with the release. Nowhere in the packaging or notes is there any mention of the director Stanley Dorfman, who did so much to bring jazz to British TV screens in the 1970s and 1980s, and apart from a ‘blink and you miss it’ credit Auntie herself doesn’t rate a mention. The accompanying blurb makes much of it being “Dizzy’s final recorded performance” which is, of course, utter nonsense. Not only did he record with the same band at Bristol’s Colston Hall the following year (broadcast on Radio 3 on 17 April 1990), but only a couple of months after the contents of this CD were cut, he made the Symphony Sessions with John Dankworth in Rochester NY, having also cut his double-album of duos with Max Roach in Paris. His actual final recordings were made for Telarc at the Blue Note in Manhattan in 1992. It’s a shame that such brilliant and immortal music should be so inattentively packaged complete with hubristic claims that are not only wrong, but totally unnecessary, given the definitive performances here of ‘Manteca’, ‘Tin Tin Deo’, ‘And Then She Stopped’, and ‘A Night In Tunisia’.