It's reboot time at Chez Solar who have decided to ditch the flimsy card sleeve and bundle the original three discs and accompanying booklet into a sturdier jewel case. Nothing new has been added to a release I first awarded four stars a few moons ago. The European jaunt that JATP undertook in 1960 was one of the very best, with a cast that included: Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge on trumpets, tenor sax legends Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and Don Byas polishing up their reputations, while Cannonball Adderley, Benny Carter and Leo Wright paraded their individual wares and we haven't even got round to pianists Oscar Peterson, Lalo Schifrin and Victor Feldman. By 1960, the format had altered somewhat since the mid-1940s where instead of just a line up of soloists stretched across the stage in jam session fashion, Norman Granz now presented a handful of premier league solo artists plus some self-contained units (Dizzy, Cannonball etc). The once crowd-baiting honking tenors and the staged battles involving trumpets and drums may have been expunged, but not the excitement. The premise may still have been combative, but nobody was red carded, while bloody noses and smashed teeth were few and far between being replaced by a convivial after hours club environment. Nothing appeared to be over-rehearsed, as various permutations dusted off such familiar standards as ‘Take The “A” Train’, ‘All The Things You Are’ and ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’. If the battles were relegated to history, the ballad medley remained intact resulting in sterling interpretations from Coleman Hawkins (‘These Foolish Things’), Don Byas (‘Yesterdays’), Benny Carter (‘The Nearness Of You’) and Roy Eldridge (‘You Go To My Head’). On an evening of outstanding performances, the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet augmented by Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson and Candido turned in a stunning 18-minute version of ‘Kush’ and equally evocative treatments of Duke's ‘The Mooche’ and Dizzy's own ‘Wheatleigh Hall’. Sadly, today there is no equivalent of these now legendary all-star touring shows that once straddled the globe yearly and spread the word.