It's extremely gratifying to hear that at the age of 79, and after almost six decades as a leading jazz sticksman, Jerry Granelli has lost none of his energy or invention. Even better, in pianist Jamie Saft (with whom the drummer collaborated on 2015's Nowness) and bassist Christopher Bradley Jones, he has two collaborators who delight in picking familiar material apart and gleefully reassembling it in wholly unexpected ways.

San Franciscan Granelli began his career in the 1950s and by the early '60s had been drawn into the ambit of Vince Guaraldi, an elegant pianist most famous for his soundtrack music for the Peanuts TV show; it was with Guaraldi's hard-working ensemble that Granelli honed his craft, and after working with the likes of Lee Konitz, Pat Metheney and Charlie Haden he joined Mose Allison's group, remaining with the great pianist-singer for almost 40 years.

On this new album (available on transparent violet vinyl as well as CD), the trio revisit a couple of Guaraldi tunes and five of Mose's. The Vince tracks are comparatively brief and conventional – if imbued with an elegant lyricism, particularly on the standard ‘Cast Your Fate to the Wind’ which also contains enough ‘wobbly bits’ to fend off familiarity or schmaltz – with the Mose tunes proving the grit and meat. ‘Parchman Farm’ is transformed into an insistent, exciting polyrhythmic epic, with Saft sneaking the essence of free jazz in via the back door. ‘Young Man Blues’ has all the energy of The Who's explosive version but replaces bombast with sinewy commitment. Most compelling of all is that old traditional tune which Allison made his own, ‘Baby Please Don't Go’. Here it is presented as a muscular New Orleans-style romp, all snaking bass, pinpointed piano and clattering drums. Wonderful stuff – you might say Plays Vince & Mose is an exercise in enlivenment, enlightenment and insight rather than of nostalgia or tribute.