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Coal Train
Featuring the music of Hugh Masekela
Duration: 8:08
Keiko Matsui: The Road...
by Jeff Winbush
It's a new year, record label, management, and hairstyle for Keiko Matsui, but her first album since 2007's Moyo (Shout Factory!) finds the Japanese pianist still in fine form. The Road... isn't as radical a shift in direction as Moyo was, as Matsui added African influences to her unique melding of musical styles, but it is ...
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
The pianist's name was Dollar Brand. He came out of a nascent South African jazz scene in 1959 with The Jazz Epistles, a group that included trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Though his profile has never reached Masekela-like heights--the trumpeter's fame shot sky high with a huge number one pop chart hit in 1968, “Grazin' in the Grass"--Dollar ...
CARNEGIE HALL presents Hugh Masekela at the Stern Auditorium on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 8 PM
Hugh Masekela, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, and Vocals Part of the Around the Globe concert series. Saturday, October 16, 2010 8 PM Tickets from $13.50-$74 Over the course of a 40-year career—during which he has collaborated with artists from Paul Simon to The Byrds to Ladysmith Black Mambazo—this extraordinary trumpeter-composer has mixed the music ...
Hugh Masekela’s Trumpet Grooves on North American October Tour
The Musical Umbilical Cord that Connects America and Africa: Hugh Masekela's Trumpet Grooves on North American October Tour Before jazz had a name and “world music" was a concept, a young trumpet player emerged from another hemisphere and landed alongside some of the greatest icons in American music. Louis Armstrong sent him a trumpet. Harry Belafonte ...
Blue Note Records Signs Ambrose Akinmusire
JAZZ TRUMPETER & MONK COMPETITION WINNER “DESTINED FOR MUCH WIDER RECOGNITION" (NEW YORK TIMES) EMI's Blue Note Records has signed jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ambrose Akinmusire. The 28 year-old winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition will head into the studio this Fall to record his major label debut with labelmate Jason Moran as ...
Hugh Masekela Amid Cup Fervor, Revisiting Pain of Apartheid
My introduction to Hugh Masekela came in 1968. Amid great turbulence, assassinations and riots, Masekela's hit single “Grazing in the Grass" became the breezy anthem of a hot summer. Masekela, we learned, was the South African-born trumpet player who had come to the United States in 1960 to escape the tyranny of apartheid. Far beyond the ...
Larry Willis: Reaching and Teaching
by Russ Musto
In a career spanning five decades, Larry Willis has amassed one the most impressive resumes in jazz, including tenures with Jackie McLean, Hugh Masekela, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Stan Getz, Carla Bley, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Cobb's So What Sextet and Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, testifying to the high esteem in which he is ...
Zimbabwe: Hugh Masekela to Thrill Jazz Lovers
Harare -- South African jazz crooner Hugh Masekela leads the list of performers at the Harare Jazz Festival scheduled for Harare Sports Club on April 17. Masekela is a trumpet player and arranger best known for the 1968 jazzy instrumental hit Grazing in the Grass. His other popular hits locally include Mandela (Bring Him Back Home) ...
