On 21 July, just prior to the first appearance of TASPO, Esquire Records engaged Lord Beginner for a session that included a celebration of the arrival of the steelband in the U.K. — West Indians and The Steel Band (Esquire 5-034) and another in praise of the Festival itself — 1951 Festival Of Britain (Esquire 5-041). Accompaniment was by Kenny Graham‘s Afro-Cubists, a British band that experimented with the contemporary fashion for merging jazz rhythms with those of Cuba, and directly with African percussion patterns.