London Is the Place for Me 6: Mento, Calypso, Jazz and Highlife from Young Black London

At last, fresh instalments in our acclaimed, much-loved series: open-hearted, bitter-sweet, mash-up postcards to the here and now, from young black London. As then, calypso carries the swing. There is more from Lord Kitchener, Mighty Terror and Lord Beginner - songs about a fling onboard an ocean-liner, jiu jitsu, big rubbery instruments, football fans and heavyweight champ Joe Louis. The Rolling Stones' favourite is back - Ginger Johnson, with a percussive Latin scorcher; and Ambrose Campbell, with two more shots of prodigal, limber, melancholic, visionary West African highlife. 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. 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, and a couple of magnificently hybrid, hard-swinging instrumentals led in turn by master-guitarist Fitzroy Coleman and Kitch's innovative arranger Rupert Nurse. Proper Brit Pop.