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01. Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
02. Young Tiger - I Was There (At The Coronation)
03. Lord Beginner - Mix Up Matrimony
04. Lord Kitchener - My Landlady
05. Lord Kitchener - Kitch's Bebop Of Calypso
06. Lord Beginner - Victory Test Match
07. Lord Kitchener - Birth Of Ghana
08. Lord Invader - Aguiti
09. Lord Beginner - Jamaica Hurricane
10. Lord Kitchener - Kitch In The Jungle
11. The Mighty Terror - No Carnival In Britain
12. Lord Kitchener - The Underground Train
13. Lord Beginner - Housewives
14. Lion - Some Girl Something
15. Lord Kitchener - Saxophone No. 2
16. Lord Beginner - Fed-A-Ray
17. Timothy - Bulldog Don't Bite Me
18. Lion - Spanish Calypso
19. Lord Kitchener - If You're Not White You're Black
20. Lord Kitchener - Sweet Jamaica
01. Young Tiger - Calypso Be
02. Ambrose Campbell - Yolanda
03. Mona Baptiste - Calypso Blues
04. West African Rhythm Brothers - Adura
05. Lord Kitchener - My Wife's Nightie
06. West African Rhythm Brothers - Ominira
07. West African Rhythm Brothers - Eroya
08. Lord Beginner - General Election
09. Lion - Kalenda March
10. Tunji Oyelana - Omonike
11. Shake Keane & His HighLifers - Balonga
12. King Timothy - Gerrard Street
13. West African Swing Stars - E.T. Mensah's Rolling Ball
14. Ambrose Campbell - Ashiko Rhythm
15. West African Swing Stars - Omo Africa
16. Gwigwi Mrwebi - Nyusamkhaya
17. Russ Henderson - West Indian Drums
18. Lord Beginner - Nobody Wants To Grow Old
19. Rans Boi's Ghana Highlife Band - Gbonimawo
20. West African Rhythm Brothers - Sing The Blues
ARTIST
TITLE
London Is the Place for Me: Calypso, Kwela, Highlife, Jazz -- The Music of Young Black London, 1 & 2
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 002CD HJR 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/14/2013

Honest Jon's assembles volumes 1 & 2 in their highly-acclaimed London Is the Place for Me series on one 2CD set. Volume 1 was the second album on the Honest Jon's label, originally released in 2002. When the Empire Windrush, an old troop-carrier, arrived at Tilbury on June 21, 1948, and inaugurated modern Caribbean immigration to Britain, it also supplied calypso with its best-known image -- on Pathé newsreel, Lord Kitchener singing his new composition "London Is the Place for Me." Kitch had boarded with Lord Beginner at Kingston docks, Jamaica, on Empire Day, May 24. In London they joined a milieu of fine band musicians familiar with Caribbean musical forms and already represented on numerous recordings crucial to the development of British swing and jazz music. Travelling with their own core audience, the Trinidadian calypsonians brought with them the vocal music of Carnival. Traditionally, this ranges from social satire to sexual double-entendre, from voodoo to the most pressing issues of the day, from sporting events to competitive insult. The experiences of Britain's growing Caribbean population was to be fabulously rich in raw material. Volume 2 remains mostlyfocused on the '50s, with classic calypsos running alongside the African jazz of Ambrose Campbell -- the father of modern Nigerian music -- and some blistering high-life. Amongst the contributions from the '60s, there is some South African kwela (featuring Chris McGregor), and a jazz-dance percussion workout from the Trinidadians who put the Notting Hill Carnival on London streets.