ABUC

"After making his name in the Buena Vista Social Club, the Havana-based pianist has set about exploring the links between Cuban music and jazz ... His eighth album Abuc is his best yet; a winding tour around Cuba's musical history, from an Afro-mambo complete with crazed cackling from rising star Dayme Arocena to a bolero featuring the honeyed vocals of Fonseca's mother, Mercedes".

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"Fonseca - as well connected, spiritually and literally, to the Cuban piano tradition as it's possible to be - casts his net wide, touching on Afro Beat, Keith Jarrett, samba, hip-hop, R&B, funk and disco, but the heart of ABUC (read it backwards) is a vivid exposition of all that is alive and intoxicating about the Afro-Cuban tradition".

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"There is something so deep and timeless about the music of Cuba that it lends itself especially well to mash-ups and reinvention. As part of a contemporary lineage that includes Bill Laswell, Dafnis Prieto and Alfredo Rodriguez, keyboardist Roberto Fonseca has a ball on this eighth album, blending the traditional with the new in a way that is both intoxicating and intriguing".