This numbered, two-LP set packaged in an attractive gatefold was a release for Record Store Day. It's an inspired choice. As soon as the needle leaves the lead-in grooves and hits track one, ‘The Squirrel‘, Gordon's huge sound leaps out of the speakers, smacks you in the face, pins you to the back of your seat, jumps all over the furniture and knocks the pictures off the wall. Seldom has his playing been captured with such aggression and fire – the reason: the powerhouse drumming of Art Taylor, whose only other documented appearance with Gordon was on Blue Note's One Flight Up (which also had Gordon's pianist of choice Kenny Drew).

This album, from tapes held by Danmarks Radio, was the last night of a month-long run at the Montmartre – Gordon regularly played such runs at the famous Jazzhus Montmatre, nightly packing in more patrons than the 90 seat capacity allowed.

After this gig, Art Taylor moved on and Gordon's quartet became Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson on bass and Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath on drums who appear on albums such as Jazz at Highschool (Storyville) and Soy Caiifa (Gearbox), also both from 1967. Together with The Squirrel these albums suggest Gordon's playing reached a peak during his so-called ‘self-imposed exile’ in Europe. In fact, Gordon was having a ball, lionised by Scandinavian audiences (he was a formative influence on Jan Garbarek, for example), and he immersed himself in their culture, even introducing himself as: “Your tenor player tonight – Bent Gordonsen”.

There are just four tracks on this 66-minute set (which has been released before, as a CD in 1997), and as the musical tension is racked up by the quartet, the one ballad, ‘You've Changed‘, offers a change of pace where Gordon is nothing short of masterful.