Honest Jon's Records - London Is The Place For Me 5
1. April 2013
Various Artists
London Is The Place For Me 5: Latin, Jazz, Calypso & Highlife From Young Black London
A captivating sonic journey, this fifth installment in Honest Jon's acclaimed series
delves into the vibrant musical landscape of post-war London's Black communities. Spanning
Latin jazz, calypso, highlife, and mento, the compilation features standout contributions
from artists like Lord Kitchener, Mighty Terror, Mona Baptiste, and Buddy Pipp's Highlifers.
These tracks, recorded between the late 1940s and early 1960s, reflect a rich tapestry of
cultural fusion and musical innovation.
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Eine faszinierende Klangreise: Der fünfte Teil der renommierten Serie von Honest Jon's taucht
ein in die lebendige Musikszene der Schwarzen Gemeinschaften im London der Nachkriegszeit. Mit
einer Mischung aus Latin Jazz, Calypso, Highlife und Mento präsentiert die Compilation herausragende
Beiträge von Künstlern wie Lord Kitchener, Mighty Terror, Mona Baptiste und Buddy Pipp's Highlifers.
Die zwischen den späten 1940er- und frühen 1960er-Jahren aufgenommenen Stücke spiegeln eine reiche
Vielfalt kultureller Fusion und musikalischer Innovation wider.
Tracklist:
Buddy Pipp's Highlifers – Cuban Nightingale
George Browne – Calypso Mambo
Lord Beginner – The Dollar And The Pound
Lord Invader – Goodwood Park
Shake Keane – Trumpet Highlife
West African Rhythm Brothers – Ominira
Caribbean Swing Band – Jordhu
Buddy Pipp's Highlifers – Ghana Special
Lord Kitchener – Cricket Umpires
Lord Kitchener – Kitch's Mambo Calypso
West African Rhythm Brothers – Jekafo Ju Agbawo
Mighty Terror – Patricia Gone With Millicent
Lord Kitchener – My Wife Went Away With Yankee
The Quavers – Kitch
Mona Baptiste – Tabu
Lord Kitchener – Jamaica Turkey
Mighty Terror – Women Police In England
Tejan-Sie mit den West African Rhythm Brothers – King Jimmy Foo Foo
West African Swing Stars – My Sorrow
Honest Jons
DER Platten Laden überhaupt am Ende der Portobello Road Londons. Egal ob spektakuläre Reissues oder super aktuelle und grossartige elektronische Musik - Honest Jon's hat die Finger im Spiel. "Informal University for music lovers" - wird der Laden liebevoll genannt und ist seit 1974 das Herz der Londoner Musik Community. Das Label Honest Jon's wird unter anderem von Notting Hill local Damon Albarn mitbetrieben. Seit 2008 veröffentlicht Honest Jon's immer wieder Leckerbissen aus den 150 000 78 - rpm Aufnahmen aus den klimakontrollierten archivräumen der EMI archives in Hayes England.
Erhältlich bei: Kitchener Bern
www.honestjons.com
EN: Honest Jon's is an independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare. Their record label of the same name is run in conjunction with Damon Albarn, who has been quoted as saying: "I don't really like the term world music. Wherever it comes from, it's all just music, isn't it? Hopefully that's what Honest Jon's is about - to open a few minds to what's out there."[1] The shop sells a multitude of genres of music on vinyl and CD, specializing in jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and outernational. It runs a mail-order business from www.honestjons.com. Formed in 2002, the label has released compilation albums such as its London Is The Place For Me series, excavating the music of young Black London, in the years after World War II ("a fascinating archive of material from the 1950s and 60s, chronicling a time when diasporic rhythms were more or less the sole preserve of the small communities responsible for bringing them to these shores");[2] also collections of British folk, Port-of-Spain soca, Afro-Cuban jazz from the Bronx, Jamaican dancehall; and retrospectives of artists including Moondog, Maki Asakawa, Bettye Swann and Cedric "Im" Brooks & The Light of Saba. It has released original music by Candi Staton, Actress, T++, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Mark Ernestus, Trembling Bells, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Simone White, Shackleton, Michael Hurley, Terry Hall, and the Moritz Von Oswald Trio. It recorded the chaabi orchestra of Abdel Hadi Halo on location in Algiers; Lobi Traore and Kokanko Sata Doumbia in Bamako; and Tony Allen in Lagos. In 2008, Honest Jon's began a run of compilations of early recordings — mostly drawn from the EMI Archive in Hayes, Hillingdon — stretching back to the start of the twentieth century, covering all corners of the world: from the break-up of the Ottoman Empire more than a hundred years ago, to 1950s Beirut, to late-1920s Baghdad, to 1930s East Africa. wikipedia