When I first heard this new album by the multi-instrumentalist and Big Boss Man leader Nasser Bouzida (AKA The Bongolian) I was immediately transported back to happier times, happier places: a smoky Soho club full of sharp-dressed youngsters grooving to the hottest R&B and Latin imports; Googie René's 1950s exotica; and most of all, the New York City of the 1960s and its vibrant Latin soul scene.

Think of the music of Ray Barretto, Mongo Santamaria, the late Candido Camero and Joe Bataan and you've got something of the essence of Harlem Hipshake. Although he plays a bewildering array on instruments on this album, Bouzida is a drummer-percussionist at heart, and Hipshake is, as you'd expect, full of heavy percussion/organ-led grooves and clattering breaks supplemented with contributions from leading UK jazz lights Terry Edwards, James Morton, Craig Crofton and Gareth James Bailey.

Producer as well as composer, Bouzida gives the album a pleasing widescreen cinematic sheen, and while Harlem Hipshake doesn't pretend to push any boundaries, it does swing, it does get the feet moving and it puts a smile on one's face. And sometimes – at times like these – that's more than enough. Time to get hip.