If you’re going into a coffee shop, you may find me in a corner, sipping my cappuccino and putting my thoughts together for a CD note or an article. I loved coffee-bars in the 1960s when they were serving frothy coffee and playing rock and roll. Coffee shops now have a wider choice with many novel ways of presenting the beans. Whoever had heard of an iced coffee in the 1960s? Over their speakers, they may play current releases but they also hark back 50 or 60 years to the records of that period, but this time is different: it is world music as opposed to British and American hits. There is much to enjoy in this collection with Mercedes Sosa (Argentina), Sergio Mendes (Brazil), Leonard Kwan and Sol Hoopii (Hawaii) and Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and the world’s greatest guitarist, Django Reinhardt, all from France. To top it all, we have US jazz from Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, Art Pepper, Art Tatum and classy pop from Sam Cooke, Julie London and Herb Alpert. Frank Sinatra sings The Coffee Song – join me in a cup and become part of café culture.