Last year's Blue Moon was a great album even by the standards of a recording career that began 60 years before. On Saturday Morning, pianist Ahmad Jamal similarly mixes Broadway ballads and riffy originals. The long, original title track, which turns on an almost identical piano/bass hook to the one on Blue Moon, is just repetition of a good trick – a killer motif that has been Jamal's trademark ever since his 1950s hit Poinciana, but the freshness with which he balances the cyclical and the spontaneous is remarkable. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good uses the intro from Take the A Train in a typically mercurial treatment that's nonetheless respectful to Ellington; I'm in the Mood for Love lets the tune out in gasps between thunderous chordal dances. Not so much a followup to Blue Moon as a companion piece.