Most 21st-century jazz musicians still playing American Songbook material want to bring freshness and surprise to those old classics. The New York Standards Quartet do so with the sheer verve and character of their playing, rather than by deconstructing the original pieces out of recognition. They revitalise the sound of the great 1960s Blue Note hard-boppers with a virtuosic relish and immediacy that sidelines preoccupations with just what idiom this is supposed to be. Tim Armacost in vibrato-laden tenor-sax mode opens the album with a sultry glimpse of Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Daiki Yasukagawa launches the uptempo The Maze with a twanging, percussive bass intro and then a hurtling walk; It Don't Mean a Thing is coolly unfolded in sidelong elisions by Armacost on soprano; Charlie Parker's Ah-Leu-Cha becomes a flying swinger with one of several exhilaratingly fleet solos by pianist David Berkman. They're familiar songs, but transformed by this set's live feel and energy.