There's a vinyl countdown this week heralded by streaming and downloads on a brand new south London label, brainchild of records man Jon Griffiths, My Only Desire Records.

Released at the end of next week as an inexpensive 12” and on digital formats Still Happy is a 1974 Radio 2 Jazz Club session amounting to 30 minutes and three tracks written by the Barbadian British trumpeter Harry Beckett who died in 2010 and to whom Courtney Pine dedicated House of Legends. The title track has never been issued on any of Beckett’s records according to the label. (Versions of the other two tracks are on the slightly later Cadilllac album Joy Unlimited.)

One of the significant things about the release is that it has been remastered from original tapes. Any archive releases that aren’t – and record shops are awash with these – are usually not worth the candle.

Most of all the album, soaked in accessibly sunny yet inventive 70s free flowing jazz funk is coated in buttery, fluent expressiveness, the band in the moment, Beckett weaving in the slipstream of Art Farmer, improvisation moving beyond paraphrase to conjure space for development.

Sleeve notes are by The Mystery Lesson’s Daniel Spicer. Tracks are Bracelets of Sound, Still Happy, No Time for Hello, Beckett is on trumpet, and alternately, flugelhorn, and he is with tenorist/soprano player Alan Wakeman and Don Weller, Brian Miller on electric piano, Paul Hart on bass guitar, John Webb [who was on Flare Up back in 1970, Beckett’s first album] on drums, and Robin Jones, known for King Salsa since the 1980s, percussion.