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01. Dizzy Reece - The Escape
02. Mighty Terror - Life in Britain
03. Lord Kitchener - Romance on the Queen Mary
04. King Timothy - Jiu Jitsu Calypso
05. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Sway
06. Fitzroy Coleman Quintet - Uncle Joe
07. Lord Beginner - The Joe Louis Calypso
08. Tony Johnson - Marilyn Monroe Calypso
09. Lili Verona - Big Instrument
10. Ginger Johnson - Mambo Contempo
01. King Timothy - Football Calypso
02. West African Rhythm Brothers - Asikoloto
03. Rupert Nurse's Calypso Band - Song of Joy
04. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Positive Action
05. Tony Johnson - Me Donkey Want Water
06. Eric Hayden - Belly Lick
07. Rupert Nurse's Calypso Band - Calypso Rhythm Dance
08. Buddy Pipp's Highlifers - Prospero
09. Mighty Terror - The Queen Is In
10. West African Rhythm Brothers - Nigeria Odowoyin
ARTIST
TITLE
London Is the Place for Me 6: Mento, Calypso, Jazz & Highlife from Young Black London
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 062LP HJR 062LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2013

2022 restock; double LP version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with four-page insert. 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 Rolling Stones favorite Ginger Johnson with a percussive Latin scorcher. 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. Plus 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.