An ambitious project, this one: an album recorded in Havana and London with a sprawling, cream-of-the-crop collective. A cross-cultural creation that challenges the traditional structures and shapes of latin-Cuban-jazz; a brave work that redefines some of the innovations currently happening in Cuban music, that breaks several moulds as it holds its nose and jumps. Most fabulously, perhaps, it's all helmed by pianist, composer and bandleader Eliane Correa, a young woman of Swiss/Spanish/Cuban descent who has been a fixture of London's live Latin scene for a while now, fronting her own band upstairs at Ronnie's and playing keys in acclaimed Cuban/Congolese outfit Wara. Having written and arranged each of the eight tracks, and cherry-picked the likes of trumpeter Graeme Flowers, kit-drummer Ernesto Simpson and bass player Jimmy Martinez to work with her, Correa throws in Van Van style montunos and deft soul-jazz stylings into an album that surprises, delights and grooves. A raft of vocalists including Manuela Panizzo – in mighty voice on the kick-ass opener, ‘Wemilere’ – keep things spicy. Correa's star, you suspect, will be rising fast.