They're bringing Havana to life in Frith Street this week. Cuban piano master Chucho Valdés is at Ronnie Scott's, hurtling through the mix of high-pressure virtuosity, cliffhanging improvisation and party-time salsa that made his legendary band Irakere a sensation 30 years ago - and which he still throws off as easily if he were were whistling in the street.

Valdés, a giant of a man who makes the grand piano look like a toy, is still a celebrity in his homeland where plenty of citizens will shake your hand for having heard of him.

He's now at Ronnie Scott's with a traditionally structured Cuban ensemble, including trumpet, saxophone and congas, playing opposite an unusual two-guitar quartet featuring the shrewd Miles Davis-influenced timing of trumpeter Dick Pearce. In the lazily grooving "son" dance-style, the Valdés band offered plenty of space to its own trumpeter, Basilio Marques, who swept elegantly between bright, dancing figures and earthy slurs and exclamations.

Valdes (who, like Sonny Rollins, finds the urge to quote other tunes irresistable) then redoubled the energy with glittering keyboard-length runs, fierce, banging chords under trickling high-note decorations, and diversions into the Miles Davis classic Milestones.

Valdés's unaccompanied introductions are better than many pianists' full-length solos, and a high-speed slide-show of stride piano, classical flourishes and boppish swing then led into salsa's irresistably chiming chords. Conga player Yaroldi Abreu then snapped out of the softly grooving reverie he'd been in, and erupted into polyrhythmic thunder. The powerful, theatrical singer Mayra Caridad Valdés swept on, to career through Latin crowdpleasers like Besame Mucho and a cha-cha, but also to improvise nimbly around the tunes in ways that neutralised their cheesiness. In the end, the audience were on their feet, stamping while the band marched, blowing furiously, around the club.

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