The official story of the Brookmeyer-Evans session (told in the 1980 reissue essay, which is borrowed along with the music) is that the producer surprised the participants with the two-piano set-up. But The Independent’s obituary of Brookmeyer, in whose name the session was first issued of course, noted that they had previously played piano duets “when they were drunk.” Done just 10 days after the first half of Kind Of Blue, this shows Bill in an entirely different light, with his musical humour stimulated by Bob and with the six innocent standards mistreated at length. The bonus half-hour-plus is an odd mix, starting with the part of Konitz’s album You And Lee where the muted brass-section includes Brookmeyer – not that you’d know it, with no solo work apart from Lee and the merest hint of Bill. Since valve-trombone is similar to a mellophone (soundwise, anyway), we then get Don Elliott’s set from Newport 1957, which has a rather more extrovert Evans. Historically interesting, the middle tune of three is turned over to Bill, who does a hasty version of ‘I Love You’ as recently issued on his first-ever album.