As is the way with this label, it's this release's two extra tracks which feature Gillespie and Roach, otherwise it's the great Getz with the OP trio all the way. Much is made on these Jazz Images reissues of the photographs by the late Jean-Pierre Leloir that are featured. The single cover portrait is his, while the trio shot is by Paul Hoeffler. Oh well. It's the music that matters, and this Norman Granz production (previously on Verve MGV-8251) confines itself to pairing these titans in a programme largely made up of standards, and leaving it to them. Thankfully, this is pre-bossa Getz in totally ebullient form, almost fervent, his outpourings on these 11 tracks described by Getz biographer Dave Gelly as “blissfully uplifting”. How true, for this is Getz in his prime, the creativity wick up high, the willingness to play and to extemporise quite unrelenting. Obviously, Peterson was never going to be a soft touch and the trio pushes hard, the opening ‘I Want To Be Happy’ like a primer for swing, Getz quite Lester-like in his sound, Ellis prompting while Brown purrs along, the intensity building as Oscar produces a solo of near-gothic proportions. Just back from a JATP tour, and happily at one with each other, it's hard to imagine this combination producing anything better than this. The Gillespie tracks are fine too, but it's the quartet pieces that matter most.