A distinctly British species of modern jazz emerged between about the mid-1960s and mid-70s. It was captured in sound mainly by BBC radio and occasionally on commercial records. Mostly, though, it was played in front of audiences at licensed premises of one sort or another. This double album, wonderfully clear and complete, is a rare live recording of one such session at the Highwayman, Camberley, Surrey, in November 1965. It’s the Rendell-Carr Quintet all right, but it sounds, or rather feels, different from the same band on its studio records – looser and more at ease. You can hear the odd chuckle and cry of encouragement, phrases that don’t quite come off but are cleverly twisted into something that does.

Three of the quintet – saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter Ian Carr and pianist Michael Garrick – were composers, and in later years the band concentrated on their work, but a few standards, such as Autumn Leaves or Miles Davis’s No Blues, went down well in this environment. A great band, not least because of the brilliant rhythm section of drummer Trevor Tomkins and bassist Dave Green, now the only surviving member.