Why isn’t Ahmed Dickinson better known on the UK jazz circuit? The Cuban-born classical guitarist has been making ripples here for some time now, performing everywhere from the Bath International Guitar Festival to the Wigmore Hall. A first class honours graduate from Havana’s Superior Institute of Art, an ex-student of both London’s Royal College of Music and the Guildhall (thanks to a scholarship or two somewhere), he was awarded best instrumental soloist and best instrumental album at Cubadisco 2009 for Ahmed Dickinson Plays Nico Rojas, a homage to the late Cuban great Jose Antonio Rojas. Perhaps this similarly excellent but more jazzy release with violin and percussion will assist his deserved crossover: a diverse collection of tracks that represent the eclecticism of Cuban music and convey its magic, The Havana Suite sparkles through passages dark, light and all shades in between. Dickinson’s fingerwork and rhythmic drive are compelling throughout; a larger profile awaits.