As every jazz historian will tell you, a shedload of momentous recordings were made in 1959, including Kind Of Blue, Giant Steps, Time Out and Mingus Ah Um, to name only a fab four. All of which may explain why this forgotten gem got lost in the shuffle. Maybe too because it was originally released under Forrest’s name. This underrated but excellent tenorist was then working for trumpeter Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, alongside Mabern, Ramey and Elvin Jones, who plays wonderful drums here without unleashing any of the Afro cross-rhythms he must even then have been perfecting with Trane.

But today it’s back on the racks because somebody noticed it was Grant Green’s first visit to a recording studio. The ace guitarist was then only 24 but had been pro for nine years and, as so often with top-line players, his full range of skills were already firmly in place. The precise, staccato picking and bluesy undertones came from Charlie Christian, but the fluent phrasing and modern harmonies were Charlie Parker’s. Particularly fine tracks are his ballad feature, ‘But Beautiful’, ‘Caravan’ and ‘All the Gin is Gone’, a neat original renamed not long afterwards as the title track of his classic Blue Note album, Grantstand. Recommended.