Recorded live at Wavendon the quartet works through just six numbers, each given an extended airing, this CD reissue differs from the earlier LP version with the substitution of Garrick's fine trio piece ‘Michael’s Song' for ‘Soft Awakening’. According to Garrick, it was the first of his albums to feature standards rather than original compositions and he paid tribute to Weller's mastery of their exploration. And so it goes here, with arguably two of British jazz's most distinctive improvisers playing cat and mouse with, among others, the title track, Monk's ‘Rhythm-a-Ning’, ‘Like Someone in Love’ and ‘Green Dolphin Street’. The opener, Charles Lloyd's ‘Third Floor Richard’ sets out their collective stall splendidly, with Garrick offering a heady mix of Monk-ian runs, Ellingtonian interjections and free piano thrashes, over Laurence's pliant beat with Jackson time keeping ahead of Weller's lengthy, almost baleful cries, each tenor sequence marked by a tightrope walker's sense of drama. There's a vital passage with Weller and Laurence playing chase, the ideas seemingly endless, a situation that pertains throughout the Monk with Garrick moving at Tatum-like speed before Weller tackles ‘You’ve Changed' in thoughtful fashion, high register figures cascading downwards ahead of a flurried catch-up, Garrick comping obliquely as the melody re-emerges. So, a mélange of informality, strong interplay and moments of great beauty, as well as turning-on-a-sixpence creativity, gilded by Laurence and Weller's virtuosity and what booklet writer Brian Priestley calls Garrick's “almost surreal invention.