Jones had such a long and rewarding career, consistently praised until his death in 2010, that it's instructive to go back to his debuts as a leader. Valued especially as an accompanist, he was already given a solo session after joining Jazz At The Phil as Ella Fitzgerald's pianist, and it's absorbing when you get used to the rather hissy reproduction. Apart from a further four 1953 tracks with now-neglected guitarist Johnny Smith, the rest of the material is from somewhat laidback Savoy dates in the mid-1950s heyday of recorded ‘blowing sessions’. Unlike the Prestige approach of throwing several horn players together, Savoy added them one by one (or two, in the case of a track featuring Donald Byrd with the justly forgotten Matty Dice), and the separate flutings of Richardson, Mann and Jaspar are less than riveting. The danger is that the often gentle playing of the leader could also be easily overlooked, but everything he does is worthy of study as well as enjoyment.