Courtney Pine didn't really give his superb pianist, Alex Wilson, enough of a chance to cut loose on his recent London jazz festival performance. But Wilson doesn't even let himself go in his own bands; he has a sweeping musical awareness and formidable technique, but prefers to subject himself to the discipline of an irresistibly warm modern dance-band sound. Wilson not only knows and loves Latin jazz, he knows branches of it that rarely make it to the mainstream. His sixth album finds him with a 12-piece band, including several singers, that splices music from Cuba, Colombia, the US and Europe - but with a good deal more soul and gospel in the vocals than usual. Wilson has a knack for making pop music from different cultures sound as if it was meant to be Latin dance tunes all along; he demonstrates this with his usual panache on Al Green's Let's Stay Together and Randy Crawford's Rio De Janeiro Blue, which becomes a coolly grooving vehicle for the soul/R&B vocalist Aquilla Fearon. It's not really a jazz album, despite the volcanic chording and tumbling piano virtuosity Wilson displays. But the band is as tight as a drumhead and, with the party season coming up, it's a hot contender.