VA-London_is_the_Place_for_Me_2_Calypso_and_Kwela_Highlife_and_Jazz_from_Young_Black_London-2005-RAC

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55,02 MB

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20

Date

2006-10-03

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Artist.......: VA
Album........: London is the place for me 2 Calypso & Kwela, High
Label........: Honest Jons
Genre........: Folk
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Sep-13-2006
str.date.....: Nov-01-2005
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a

track  title                                          time

 01.   young tiger - calypso be                      02:57
 02.   ambrose campbell - yolanda                    03:15
 03.   mona baptiste - calypso blues                 02:58
 04.   west african rhythm brothers - adura          02:53
 05.   lord kitchener - my wife's nightie            02:37
 06.   west african rhythm brothers - ominira        03:12
 07.   west african rhythm brothers - eroya          02:53
 08.   lord beginner - general election              02:48
 09.   the lion - kalenda march                      03:05
 10.   tunji oyelana - omonike                       03:09
 11.   shake keane & his highlifers - balonga        02:11
 12.   king timothy - gerrard street                 02:37
 13.   west african swing stars - e.t. mensah's      02:39
       rolling ball
 14.   ambrose campbell - ashiko rhythm              04:56
 15.   west african swing stars - omo africa         03:25
 16.   gwigwi mrwebi - nyusamkhaya                   03:19
 17.   russ henderson - west indian drums            03:11
 18.   lord beginner - nobody wants to grow old      02:29
 19.   ran boi's ghana highlife band - gbonimawo     03:06
 20.   west african rhythm brothers - sing the blues 02:49

                                            Runtime  60:29 min
                                            Size     55,0 MB


Release Notes:

Although it isn't quite as striking as the first
volume, this second installment in Honest Jon's
Records' survey of the impact of African and
Caribbean musicians on London's music scene in the
1940s and 1950s is still a very pleasant listen.
Covering roughly 1950 through 1956, Volume 2
features a multicultural mix of Londonized calypso,
African jazz, and highlife with just a touch of bop
thrown in, and if nothing exactly startling leaps
out of the sequence, there is a wonderful and
unhurried warmth to everything that makes it well
worth a listen. Highlights include a pair of
point/counterpoint hybrid calypsos that take on the
musical merits of bebop, Young Tiger's (George
Browne) "Calypso Be," which embraces Count Basie in
the lyrics but dismisses Dizzy Gillespie and the
whole bop movement (although the tenor sax playing
of Jamaica's Sam Walker undercuts the whole song
with a bop sensibility), and King Timothy's (Al
Timothy) "Gerrard Street," which pays tribute to
Soho's Gerrard Street, home of several bop clubs.
Also worth noting is Mona Baptiste's easy and fluid
version of Nat King Cole's "Calypso Blues" and
Gwigwi Mrwebi's bouncing and swinging "Nyusamkhaya"
instrumental. As a whole, this 20-cut anthology has
a warm and mellow flow, and while it probably won't
change anyone's life, it features several African
and West Indies musicians who would become key
players in the emerging multicultural London jazz
scene.s

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