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v/a - london is the place for me 5 - honest jons records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: World - Misc

1. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Cuban Nightingale
2. George Browne - Calypso Mambo
3. Lord Beginner - The Dollar And The Pound
4. Lord Invader - Goodwood Park
5. Shake Keane - Trumpet Highlife
6. West African Rhythm Brothers - Ominira
7. Caribbean Swing Band - Jordhu
8. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Ghana Special
9. Lord Kitchener - Cricket Umpires
10. Lord Kitchener - Kitch's Mambo Calypso
11. West African Rhythm Brothers - Jekafo Ju Agbawo
12. Mighty Terror - Patricia Gone With Millicent
13. Lord Kitchener - My Wife Went Away With Yankee
14. The Quavers - Kitch
15. Mona Baptiste - Tabu
16. Lord Kitchener - Jamaica Turkey
17. Mighty Terror - Women Police In England
18. Tejan-Sie With The West African Rhythm Brothers - King Jimmy Foo Foo
19. West African Swing Stars - My Sorrow

At last, fresh installments in the acclaimed, much-loved series: open-hearted, bitter-sweet, mash-up postcards to the here and now, from young black London. LP comes in gatefold sleeves with full-size booklet. Check!!

As then, calypso carries the swing. There are four more Lord Kitchener songs — besides a hot mambo cash-in, cross-bred under his supervision, and an uproarious, teasing Ghanaian tribute to him in Fanti by London visitors The Quavers. Other calypsos range compellingly from the devaluation of the pound through jiu jitsu, big rubbery instruments, football fans, heavyweight champ Joe Louis and the sexual allure of English women police. The Mighty Terror contributes the woe-begotten, cautionary tale of his beloved Patricia's change of heart.
Ambrose Campbell is back, with six more shots of prodigal, limber, melancholic, visionary West African highlife. Also the Rolling Stones' favourite Ginger Johnson, with a percussive Latin scorcher; and Mona Baptiste, with some wonderful, soulful exotica.
Jamaican mento makes its first entry in the series, with a brace by Tony Johnson: a drily witty drinking-song, and a love-letter to Marilyn Monroe. Also finally getting some dues, the path-breaking Latin-African-jazz experiments of Ghanaian drummer and percussionist Buddy Pipp, with spine-tingling playing by the great Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott.
Expert jazz idioms course sophisticatedly through all the selections, which include a straight-up, South London version of Duke Jordan's Jordhu, something from Dizzy Reece's soundtrack — brokered by Kenneth Tynan — to the British crime film Nowhere To Go, and a trio of magnificently hybrid, hard-swinging instrumentals led in turn by master-guitarist Fitzroy Coleman, Kitch's innovative arranger Rupert Nurse, and trumpeter Shake Keane — named after Shakespeare because of his love of poetry — from St. Vincent.