Some musics manage to sound exactly like their description: grindcore, unfortunately; West African highlife much more positively. It was a sound that penetrated the jazz and popular scene in Britain in the later 1950s and 1960s, influencing everyone from trad clarinettist Sandy Brown to singer/pianist Georgie Fame. A superb collection, Highlife on the Move (Soundway Records SNDWLP060 3LP+45/2CD) brings together a magnificent selection of a style that spread its bell-pattern guitar, punchy horns and exuberant vocals out of Ghana, into Nigeria, and thence to London, and introduced to the world the fiery talent of Fela Ransome-Kuti. Later a thorn in the side of the Nigerian authorities and something of a demagogue, the young Fela was unrivalled leader of a scene that also included such unfor