Hiromi Uehara is a tiny figure at the piano but her talent is massive. Her deft leadership kept a tough jazz-rock rhythm section at full stretch last night.

Grooving hard were a brilliant Bratislavan drummer, Martin Valihora, a Geordie six-string bass-guitar genie, Tony Grey, and US heavy-metal hero Dave Fiuszinski on a mean-looking double-necked guitar. The Fuze is noted for his hard-edged timbre and fast fretmanship, but Hiromi’s keyboard brilliance matched him comfortably as they swapped eight-bar breaks.

Later the classically trained Hiromi quoted from Claire de Lune, crowning Debussy’s melody with an apt Bill Evans chord, before demonstrating her grip on jazz keyboard history by building Softly as in a Morning Sunrise from a stride-piano solo into a modal McCoy Tynerish vamp.

Opposite her is Mina Agossi, a charmingly disorganised Parisienne whose throaty African timbre and free-spirited charisma compensated for her technical shortcomings. Bassist Eric Jacot and drummer Ichiro Onoe worked hard to cover the absence of chordwork on The Very Thought of You and It’s All Right With Me. Simple Things, title track of her next album, worked better.

Indeed, this stimulating double bill offers an unusually wide spectrum of feminine wiles.

Until tomorrow (020 7439 0767).