Hugh Masekela
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Biography
[Edit]Hugh Masekela has an extensive jazz background and credentials, but has enjoyed major success as one of the earliest leaders in the world fusion mode. Masekela's vibrant trumpet and flügelhorn solos have been featured in pop, R&B, disco, Afro-pop, and jazz contexts. He's had American and international hits, worked with bands around the world, and played with African, African-American, European, and various American musicians during a stellar career. His style, especially on flügelhorn, is a charismatic blend of striking upper-register lines, half-valve effects, and repetitive figures and phrases, with some note bending, slurs, and tonal colors. Though he's often simplified his playing to fit into restrictive pop formulas, Masekela is capable of outstanding ballad and bebop work.
He began singing and playing piano as a child, influenced by seeing the film Young Man with a Horn at 13. Masekela started playing trumpet at 14. He played in the Huddleston Jazz Band, which was led by anti-apartheid crusader and group head Trevor Huddleston. Huddleston was eventually deported, and Masekela co-founded the Merry Makers of Springs along with Jonas Gwangwa. He later joined Alfred Herbert's Jazz Revue, and played in studio bands backing popular singers. Masekela was in the orchestra for the musical King Kong, whose cast included Miriam Makeba. He was also in the Jazz Epistles with Abdullah Ibrahim, Makaya Ntshoko, Gwanga, and Kippie Moeketsi. Masekela and Makeba, his wife at that time, left South Africa one year before Ibrahim and Sathima Bea Benjamin in 1961. Such musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, John Dankworth, and Harry Belafonte assisted him. Masekela studied at the Royal Academy of Music, then the Manhattan School of Music. During the early '60s, his career began to explode. He recorded for MGM, Mercury, and Verve, developing his hybrid African/pop/jazz style. Masekela moved to California and started his own record label, Chisa. He cut several albums expanding this formula and began to score pop success. The song "Grazing in the Grass" topped the charts in 1968 and eventually sold four million copies worldwide. That year Masekela sold out arenas nationwide during his tour, among them Carnegie Hall. He recorded in the early '70s with Monk Montgomery & the Crusaders.
Masekela moved in a more ethnic direction during the '70s. He traveled to London to play with Nigerian Afro-beat great Fela Kuti & Africa 70; then came a session with Dudu Pukwana, Eddie Gomez, and Ntshoko, among others, that resulted in his finest jazz/African album, Home Is Where the Music Is. Masekela toured Guinea with the Ghanian Afro-pop band Hedzoleh Soundz, then recorded a series of albums with them both in California and Africa with guest stints from the Crusaders, Patti Austin, and others. Masekela alternated between America and Africa, cutting a successful pop/dance album with Herb Alpert in the late '70s. During the '80s, Masekela returned to South Africa. He visited Zimbabwe and Botswana, and recorded two albums with the Kalahari Band that once more merged jazz-rock, funk, and pop. Masekela was part of Paul Simon's Graceland tour in the mid-'80s, while he continued recording and produced sessions by Makeba. Starting in the mid-'90s, Masekela began releasing a stream of albums and collections that showed his versatility and growth in South African jazz. He continued to be active into the first decade of the 21st century, issuing Live at the Market Theatre in 2007, Phola in 2009, and a pair of albums in 2012, Friends (with Larry Willis) and Jabulani, inspired by South African wedding traditions Masekela remembered from his childhood. Though the jazz content of his work has varied over the years, Hugh Masekela has far more material on the plus side than the negative.
Title: The Best of Hugh Masekela On Novus
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, World Music, Smooth Jazz
Title: We Are One
Artist: Hugh Masekela, Black Coffee
Genre: Electronica, House, Jazz, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Don't Go Lose It Baby (Vinyl, 12'') (Maxi-Single)
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Title: 20th Century Masters: The Best of Hugh Masekela
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz
Title: Live At The Record Plant, 24th February 1974 (Digitally Remastered)
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Presents the Chissa Years 1965-1975 (Rare and Unreleased)
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, World Music
Title: The Chisa Years 1965-1975 (Rare and Unreleased)
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, World Music
Title: Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela
Artist: Herb Alpert, Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Hugh Masekela Presents the CHISA Years: 1965-1975 (Rare & Unreleased)
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Crossover Jazz, World Music
Title: Slow Bones HD (Single)
Artist: Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Pop, Alternative, Indie
Title: Grazing In the Grass - The Best of Hugh Masekela
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, World Music
Title: Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa
Artist: Hugh Masekela
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz, Soul Jazz
Collections
Title: Africa Greatest Hit Songs, Vol. 1
Genre: New Age, World Music, Lounge
Title: World And Folk Jazz Highlights
Genre: Jazz, Nu Jazz, World Music, Folk
Title: Grand 12-Inches 2 (CD3)
Title: Most Wanted Remixed Jazz
Title: World Music Groove
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Latin, Funk, Bossanova
Title: Afrobeat Sessions
Genre: Funk
Title: So80s 7 Ibiza
Title: The Womeximizer 11
Title: Luxury, No. 1 (The House Series)
Genre: House, Deep House, Club/Dance, Funk
Title: Jazz For The Gym
Title: New York - Jazz Town
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: Grand Masters Collection African Jazz Masters
Genre: Jazz, Reggae, World Music
Title: Grand Masters: Collection African Roots
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Lounge
Title: Grand Masters Collection African Ceremony
Genre: Reggae, World Music, Lounge
Title: Grand Masters Collection African Souvenirs
Genre: Reggae, World Music, Lounge
Title: Mzansi: Greatest, Jazz Artists Praise The Lord
Genre: Jazz
Title: Summertime: Jazz Classics
Genre: Jazz
Title: Afro Jazz: Africa Inspires Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazzanova: The Remixes 2006-2016
Genre: Electronica
Title: Afro Music Party 2017 (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Ethnic
Title: Tribes & Vibes Pres. By Who Is Who 2018
Genre: House
Title: Nova La Nuit (CD1)
Genre: Electronica
Title: Tribes And Vibes Presents By Who Is Who
Genre: House
Title: Dream Improvisation: Romantic Jazz Music (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: 100 Greatest Jazz Icons 2020 (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Boogaloo Hits
Title: Bracelets Of Sound: Instrumental Jazz Music (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Jazzing Africa
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Celebrating Afro Jazz
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: African Jazz For The Soul
Genre: Soul, Jazz, World Music
Title: The Appreciation Of Afro Jazz 2023
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: African Jazz For The Soul, Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: African Jazz For The Soul, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: African Jazz For The Soul, Vol. 5
Genre: Jazz
Title: Africa Celebrates World Music Month: 2023
Genre: Electronica
Featuring albums
Title: Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa
Artist: Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Crossover Jazz
Title: The Djoon Experience compiled & mixed by Black Coffee and Joe Claussell
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor
Title: Grand Masters Collection: Sound Offerings from South Africa
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music
Title: Intergalactic Disco Funk Vol. 03 (CD2)
Artist: Ben Liebrand
Genre: Dancefloor, Disco, Nu Disco, Dance Pop, Funk
Title: The Complete Verve Remixed (Deluxe Edition)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Songs That Made Us Free
Artist: The Liberation Project
Genre: Afro Jazz, World Music, Pop, Folk
Title: What I Used To Play
Artist: Sven Väth / Sven Vath
Genre: House, Acid House, Techno, New Wave, Pop Rock, Synth Pop, EBM