0435 Laurie Johnson [Lock Up Your Daughters] FLAC 4(9.11)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
This is a bit of a musical oddity.
Laurie Johnson wrote the music and Lionel Bart the words for a 1959 musical, 'Lock Up Your Daughters', based on Henry Fielding's book 'Rape Upon Rape.
It ran successfully in the West End for three or four years and eventually a cast recording was made.
Johnson then decided to cover four of the songs in the show with a big band recording including jazz soloists and this is the result. The ep is elusive and expensive (there's one on ebay for £80) but the four 'jazz' tracks were found buried away in a 'Best Of Laurie Johnson' compilation cd issued in 2009.
The tracks are quite short and each is a feature for one of the jazz soloists - Johnny Scott, Bert Courtley, Shake Keane and Joe Harriott.  The other musicians in the band are not identified and the recording date is not known, but presumably in the early 1960s.
To paraphrase the lawyers, 'the discographies are silent'.
FLAC from cd with original ep cover scans.

Laurie Johnson - leader
Bert Courtley - trumpet
Shake Keane - trumpet
Joe Harriott - alto
Johnny Scott - flute
other personnel unknown

01 Lock Up Your Daughters (Johnson, Bart) (2:00)
02 Lovely Lover (Johnson, Bart) (2:52)
03 'Tis Plain To See (Johnson, Bart) (:2)03
04 There's A Plot Afoot (Johnson, Bart) (2:15)

Label: Pye NEP 24156
Recorded: Late April 1960 London
Lineage: Compilation CD>FLAC

0327 Shake Keane [Highlife Sounds] FLAC 9(22.06)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
These tracks were mainly recorded in the early (1953/1954) part of Shake Keane's career in the UK with West Indian musicians and before he was established on the jazz scene. They are taken from a variety of sources and are in the calypso/highlife style which was becoming popular in the UK amongst the newly arrived immigrants from the Caribbean.
Our old friend Phil Seamen pops up on the last two tracks recorded in 1962.
FLAC from lp, ep and cd with track details, label pictures, ep cover scans and a front 'cover' picture.

(01)
Shake Keane - trumpet
Humphrey Lyttelton - trumpet
Mike McKenzie - piano
Unknown - guitar
Unknown - bass
Unknown - drums
George Browne - vocal
The Ebonaires - vocal group
(02)
Shake Keane - trumpet, claves
Denny Wright - guitar
Unknown - piano
Joe Sampson - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
Leslie Weeks - percussion
(03-05)
Shake Keane - trumpet
Mike McKenzie - piano
George Brown - vocal
Unknown - guitar
Unknown - bass
Unknown - drums
Unknown - percussion
(06)
Shake Keane - trumpet
Unknown - piano
Unknown - bass
Unknown - drums
Unknown - percussion
Unknown - vocal
(07)
Shake Keane - flugelhorn
Johnny Scott - flute
Frank Horrox - organ
Coleridge Goode - bass
Bobby Orr - drums
Barry Morgan - bongo
(08 09)
Shake Keane - flugelhorn
Eddie Palmer - organ, claves
Cedric West - guitar
Chris Staunton - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 A Little More Oil In Your Lamp (Jacob, Saunders) (2:00)
02 Trumpet Highlife (Keane) (2:12)
03 Mambo Indio (Keane) (2:36)
04 Akinla (Sowande) (3:00)
05 Fire, Fire (Lanier) (2:27)
06 Baionga (Keane) (2:11) 
07 Murmurio (Keane) (3:21)
08 Ruanda (Keane) (2:02)
09 Nursery Blues (Keane) (2:16) 

Label: Various
Recorded: 1953-1954
Lineage: Various

0269 Shake Keane [In My Condition] FLAC 4(13.44)

Contributed by The Boogieman

Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn
Joe Harriott - alto
Pat Smythe - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Tommy Jones - drums

01 How Say You (Keane) (2:57)
02 Morning Blue (Harriott) (4:41)
03 Fidel (Keane) (2:36)
04 In My Condition (Keane) (3:30)

Label: Lansdowne Jazz Series SEG 8140
Recorded: August 31 1961
Lineage: EP>FLAC