Two years since the release of What’s Up? a Southbank Centre concert by Michel Camilo, above, is billed as the pianist’s first UK solo piano show.

What’s Up won a Latin Grammy and proved a very welcome return to form by a piano master, the beautifully yearning ‘Sandra’s Serenade’ via the New Orleans flavours of the title track, the Jarrett-esque ‘A Place in Time’, and an unstuffy take on the overly familiar ‘Take Five’, just some of the best bits of this solo piano affair. And when the son flavours really shine on ‘Island Beat,’ even though the tune might be crying out for congas, Camilo’s left hand compensates completely. Camilo’s approach on ‘Alone Together’, the 1930s Arthur Schwartz / Howard Dietz standard, is a harmonic whodunit, elliptically modern by the end with voicings that would do Jason Moran proud. Other tracks include an understated take on Cole Porter’s ‘Love For Sale’; a banging, wonderfully-timed version of the late Compay Segundo’s classic ‘Chan Chan’, one for the Buena Vista Social Club generation definitely; and two more Camilo originals: ‘On Fire’ a contrafact of Cole Parker’s ‘Too Darn Hot’; and the airy ‘At Dawn’. The concert, at the QEH, is on 13 June. For tickets click here