This album, originally released back in the day shortly after an album by The Fugs and in-between Albert Ayler’s Spirits Rejoice and Marion Brown’s Quartet, had an initial pressing of some 500 LPs. Well, it’s certainly stood the test of time and here it is again, sounding as fresh as it did back in 1965. One reason for its contemporaneity is that many pianists have come under Paul Bley’s spell, something he could never have imagined when he was recording this a lifetime ago, his brand of modernity for many suggestive of futuristic aspiration. Here are 10 piano trio vignettes, none lasting more than three minutes 28 seconds, of which seven were written by his then wife, Carla Bley. Most famous, of course, is her very early composition ‘Ida Lupino’, co-penned with Terry Adams (yes, that Terry Adams) and heard here freshly minted. Other compositions deliberately blur the boundary between the written and improvised – ‘Start’, ‘Closer’, ‘Violin’ – and are purposefully knotty, giving weight to Carla Bley’s claim that she hears songs which she herself can barely play. Here they are given flight by Paul Bley in a minor classic from the 1960s.