V/A - 90 Degrees of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean Vol. 2

Soul Jazz Records new album 90 Degrees of Shade features the music of the Caribbean - Mambo, Calypso, Mento, Merengue, Latin Jazz and much more the music of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and more all feature in this lightning journey through the many island sounds. This is the sound of independence, righteous and hot jump-up sounds from the 1950's and 60's, an exciting period of endless new musical styles that would travel across the world - Mento, the Jamaican precursor to Reggae; Mambos and Descargas from Cuba, Dominican Merengue, Haitian Compas - it's all here!

This album coincides with the release of Soul Jazz Records massive new deluxe large format hardback book 90 Degrees of Shade: 100 Years of Photography in the Caribbean (with foreword by Paul Gilroy) featuring hundreds of fascinating and unique photographs spanning one hundred years of Caribbean history.