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Preceded by five snappily dressed sidemen on brass, congas, timbales and double bass, the multi-Grammy-winning 72-year-old took to his piano and steered proceedings from the start.

Commanding attention with a sweet, short, Latin-style vamp, he let trumpeter Mike Rodriguez and alto sax player Yosvany Terry improvise the sort of melodic flurries that made his legendary outfit La Perfecta so great.

Eyes shut, head back, the avuncular Palmieri took the spotlight again with a Latin jazz cadenza - his Cuban influence obvious - before working his orchestra like another instrument.

Double bassist Ruben Rodriguez and congero Vincente Rivero arrived at the same rhythm in a buoyant descarga; timbales player Jose Clausell added a staccato urgency.

Their New York-based bandleader had his tie off by the third tune (each tune being around 20 minutes long), helming salsa, son montuna and cha-cha-cha but never quite pushing his remarkable crew as far as they could go. This, then, was polish over pizzazz.

But Palmieri, still the man, knew how to leave us wanting more.

Eddie Palmieri & The AfroCaribbean Jazz All Stars, The Ronnie Scotts All Stars
The Jazz Cafe
Parkway, Camden, NW1 7PG