A compilation of tracks from the German MPS label the clue is in the title as the compiler is Gilles Peterson.

Bookended by Don Ellis and Wolfgang Dauner tracks of course it’s tasteful: it has the DJ’s name on it.

Chief in this regard the inclusion of a Mary Lou Williams “dinner-jazz”-friendly version of the Gershwins’ ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So,’ is a must as is the rare ‘White Magic’ from the John Taylor trio’s Decipher, the latter worth getting for alone. But as it is a CD bonus track, craftily, you might have to, making do, if you are an impecunious and equally time-poor trio head especially as the original vinyl (ideal format for this kind of music) is nigh on impossible to find for less than the price of a slap-up meal at a top restaurant. One track is enough to go trawling for Decipher in the suburbs at the Last Record Shop Still Standing, you never know, but, really, dream on.

Sold on Gilles Peterson’s name, DJs of course are artists too, the audiophile-friendly superb sound and consummate taste of MPS and the jazz artists featured are he’d be sure to admit the true stars. But kudos once more, nuff respect, to conjure the Coronet Street days of Straight No Chaser’s Paul Bradshaw, to Peterson once more. After Impressed blew even the most curmudgeonly away all those years ago he’s making a habit of it.

Stephen Graham

Released on 15 April. The Taylor track has the late JT, with Chris Laurence on bass, and Tony Levin, drums, and dates back to the 1970s. Gilles Peterson, top