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01. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Cuban Nightingale
02. George Browne - Calypso Mambo
03. Lord Beginner - The Dollar and the Pound
04. Lord Invader - Goodwood Park
05. Shake Keane - Trumpet Highlife
06. West African Rhythm Brothers - Ominira
07. Caribbean Swing Band - Jordhu
08. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Ghana Special
09. Lord Kitchener - Cricket Umpires
10. Lord Kitchener - Kitch's Mambo Calypso
01. West African Rhythm Brothers - Jekafo Ju Agbawo
02. Mighty Terror - Patricia Gone with Millicent
03. Lord Kitchener - My Wife Went Away with Yankee
04. The Quavers - Kitch
05. Mona Baptiste - Tabu
06. Lord Kitchener - Jamaica Turkey
07. Mighty Terror - Women Police in England
08. Tejan-Sie with the West African Rhythm Brothers - King Jimmy Foo Foo
09. West African Swing Stars - My Sorrow
ARTIST
TITLE
London Is the Place for Me 5: Latin, Jazz, Calypso & Highlife from Young Black London
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 061LP HJR 061LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2013

2023 restock. Double LP version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with full-size booklet. At last, fresh installments in Honest Jon's acclaimed, much-loved series: open-hearted, bittersweet, mash-up postcards to the here and now, from young black London. 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. The Mighty Terror contributes the woe-begotten, cautionary tale of his beloved Patricia's change of heart. Mona Baptiste with some wonderful, soulful exotica. 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.