Another impressive compilation from Honest Jons! A great partner to ‘London Is The Place For Me’ series. Marvellous Boy is the West African counterpart of the 1950s Soho scene of our series London Is The Place For Me. Calypso, highlife and jazz, brimming over with lust for life, topicality, and extravagant creativity. This title follows the course of West African calypso recordings, from Sierra Leone in the late 1940s, through Ghana and Nigeria over the next fifteen years or so. Though by the mid-1960s the records were ebbing away, the creole roots of the music run back more than two centuries before these inaugural 78s of Ebenezer Calendar and Famous Scrubbs, to eighteenth-century Britain and beyond, and deep into the diasporic settlement of this region.
