The stated mission of the J@LCO is “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy”. These very worthwhile if slightly high-flown aims, apparent in the orchestra's recent UK visit with its concentration on support for young players amidst its more specific concert commitments, were also carried forward when the orchestra visited Cuba in 2010, this very spirited double– album a record of their week-long sojourn in Havana. It took President Obama's lifting of travel restrictions between the US and Cuba to get them there. Once in place, the band spread the word all over the city, working again with youngsters and performing a series of latin-flavoured pieces by band members, a selection of Ellingtonia, a hint of New Orleans and a bow to the innovations of Dizzy Gillespie with a nine-minute version of ‘Things to Come’, taken a tad too fast, all caught here. Much is made in the lengthy booklet note of the common musical heritage between the two communities, the evident enthusiasm of these local audiences adding support to the theory. Or maybe they'd just been starved of this righteous stuff. They clearly approved of Henriquez's ‘2/3's Adventure’ with its move into guajira rhythm, with Printup playing high while Irby's bluesy arrangement of ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ may have surprised them but Rampton's extended solo is a joy, as is Irby's poised alto. Wynton's ‘Vitoria Suite’ recalled his Ellington debt as does ‘Inaki's’ Decision’, his conversational trumpet foregrounded. Thereafter, the incorporation of local artists adds spice where necessary. Otherwise, there's a ton of music here, a vivid advertisement for the continuing vitality of LCJO jazz, catholic in its choices, eclectic in the variety of influences on offer but simultaneously joyous and celebratory, too. Temperley is magnificent on ‘Sunset and the Mocking Bird’, Crenshaw proves to be a pretty effective blues shouter on ‘I Left My Baby’ and Wynton solos at length throughout. What a mission and what an outcome!