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Tracklist
A1Dizzy Reece - The Escape
A2Mighty Terroe - Life In Britain
A3Lord Kitchener - Romance On The Queen Mary
A4King Timothy - Jiu Jitsu Calypso
A5Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Sway
B1Fitzroy Coleman Quintet - Uncle Joe
B2Lord Beginner - The Joe Louis Calypso
B3Tony Johnson - Marilyn Monroe Calypso
B4Lili Verona - Big Instrument
B5Ginger Johnson - Mambo Contempo
C1King Timothy - Football Calypso
C2West African Rhythm Brothers - Asikoloto
C3Rupert Nurse's Calypso Band - Song Of Joy
C4Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Positive Action
C5Tony Johnson - Me Donkey Want Water
D1Eric Hayden - Belly Lick
D2Rupert Nurse's Calypso Band - Calypso Rhythm Dance
D3Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Prospero
D4Mighty Terror - The Queen Is In
D5West African Rhythm Brothers - Nigeria Odowoyin
London Is The Place For MeVolume 6: Mento, Calypso, Jazz & Highlife From Young Black London
Vinyl 2LP | 2013 / UK – Original | New
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As then, calypso carries the swing. There are four more Lord Kitchener songs — in consideration of his wife leaving him for a GI, cricket umpires, a fling onboard an ocean-liner and West Indian poultry — 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: 'I cannot believe, not for one moment / She gone with Millicent... / You may think I am jocular / But this really happened in Manchester / I felt so ashamed, my friends laughed at me / I had to take a train for London city.'
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.
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: 'I cannot believe, not for one moment / She gone with Millicent... / You may think I am jocular / But this really happened in Manchester / I felt so ashamed, my friends laughed at me / I had to take a train for London city.'
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.
Item Details
Item No: | 310143 |
Artist: | London Is The Place For Me |
Titel: | Volume 6: Mento, Calypso, Jazz & Highlife From Young Black London |
Label: | Honest Jon's |
Katalog-Nr: | HJRLP62 |
Format: | Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP |
Pressing: | UK – Original |
Release Date: | 2013 |
Genre: | Organic Grooves |
Style: | Funk / Soul, Jazz / Fusion |
Available since: | 22.04.2013 |
Condition: | New |
Price: | 18,99 € |
Weight: | 500g (plus 250g Packaging) |
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