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v/a - london is the place for me 5 and 6 - honest jons records - cd

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
20. Dizzy Reece - The Escape
21. Mighty Terror - Life In Britain
22. Lord Kitchener - Romance On The Queen Mary
23. King Timothy - Jiu Jitsu Calypso
24. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Sway
25. Fitzroy Coleman Quintet - Uncle Joe
26. Lord Beginner - The Joe Louis Calypso
27. Tony Johnson - Marilyn Monroe Calypso
28. Lili Verona - Big Instrument
29. Ginger Johnson - Mambo Contempo
30. King Timothy - Football Calypso
31. West African Rhythm Brothers - Asikoloto
32. Rupert Nurse's Calypso Band - Song Of Joy
33. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Positive Action
34. Tony Johnson - Me Donkey Want Water
35. Eric Hayden - Belly Lick
36. Rupert Nurse's Calypso Band - Calypso Rhythm Dance
37. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Prospero
38. Mighty Terror - The Queen Is In
39. West African Rhythm Brothers - Nigeria Odowoyin

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. The CD is beautifully presented as a miniature book, saddle-stitched, with forty pages of rare, precious photos of the musicians and their social milieu, and in-depth commentary 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.