AMBROSE CAMPBELL orig UK Columbia High life today nice copy W/Harold Beckett
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In 1946, Campbell and Brewster Hughes, after his release from prison, formed a professional band, the West African Rhythm Brothers. They were employed to provide music for theatre performances by the black ballet company, Les Ballets Nègres, and toured the UK. The group appeared on British television, and around 1952 established a residency at the Abalabi club in Soho, playing a mixture of palm-wine and jùjú music and associating with jazz musicians including Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes and Phil Seamen. Campbell and his band increasingly absorbed calypso and mento influences from musicians newly arriving from the Caribbean, some of whom joined the band, as well as group members' experiences of racism in Britain. With Campbell on vocals and Hughes on guitar, other members of the group included trumpeter Harry Beckett, saxophonist Willy Roachford, pianist Adam Fiberesima, and bongo player Ade Bashorun.[1][4] In the 1950s Campbell recorded a series of 78 rpm records for the Melodisc label owned by Emil Shalit, and became a well-known figure in Soho.[2] He appeared thinly disguised as the character "Cranium Cuthbertson" in Colin MacInnes's 1957 novel City of Spades; MacInnes became godfather to Campbell's first son.[4]
In the 1960s, the Abalabi club moved and became the Club Afrique in Wardour Street. Campbell learned guitar and, after a disagreement with Brewster Hughes, formed a new band. He toured Italy, and formed a production company with the help of lawyer and Labour Party adviser Arnold Goodman.[1][2] He recorded an album for Columbia, Highlife Today, in 1968, before seemingly vanishing; newspapers in Lagos reported his death. However, in fact he travelled to Los Angeles in 1972 with record producer Denny Cordell, intending to start his own business. There he was introduced to keyboardist and record producer Leon Russell, who invited Campbell to tour with him. He recorded as a percussionist with Russell – who referred to Campbell as his "spiritual adviser"[1] –
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A very rare lp
AMBROSE CAMPBELL & his Emergent Music on UK Columbia Lansdowne Series
Mono copy SX6081 issued in 1966 with HAROLD BECKETT & SHAKE KEANE
COVER: Front EX+ Back : EX
SPINE:EX+ fully readable
LABELS: EX
RECORD : EX really audible copy, don't be afraid , i don't sell bad copies
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