The Zombies are one of those beat group legends who can be happily mentioned in the same breath as the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Procol Harum. Their short career spanned the most creatively intense period of the 1960s and they ended on a high note, literally and metaphorically, with their biggest hit, Time of the Season.

They are now enjoying an extended Indian Summer in a revived version of the band led by singer Colin Blunstone and keyboard player Rod Argent, a tight quintet that plays all the hits plus new material and rarities.

Though it might seem odd that they're squeezed into the tiny stage of the Jazz Cafe, it makes perfect sense when Argent plays the organ stabs and swirls of Mystified, and you recall that the Zombies sprang from the soul-jazz-blues milieu that spawned Manfred Mann and Cream. They're not a million miles from Jazz Cafe regular Georgie Fame.

But the Zombies are a pop group, and hearing them pound out the music-hall psychedelia of Odessey and Oracles' Care of Cell 44 (Dave Grohl's favourite track) and This Will Be Our Year in a small club has a special thrill.

Drummer Steve Rodford holds it together while apparently miming his drum score with Keith Moon-style expressions - all grimaces and puffed cheeks. Blunstone is both cool and impassioned, and they play with commitment, rarely coasting apart from the absurd God Gave Rock and Roll To You (a hit for Kiss, two decades after Argent's version).

And they're fun, performing catchy B-sides for the first time as well as an endless fund of "earworm" oldies - hits such as Tell Her No, Say You Don't Mind, Hold Your Head Up and She's Not There, as spine-chilling and thrilling as ever.